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Results of surgical treatment of athletes with sportsman's hernia
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Abstract
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| Chronic groin pain in athletes is a difficult diagnostic and therapeutic condition. Between March 2004 and December 2009, 241 male athletes (mean age : 25.8 years , range : 16- 41) in whom chronic sportsmans hernia was diagnosed, were surgically treated using a standardised technique. In this retrospective study, charts were analyzed for preoperative duration of symptoms and prior treatment. Perioperative complications were noted. Patients were contacted and were asked to answer a telephone questionnaire : 162 patients agreed to be questioned as part of the current study. A surgical intervention with reinforcement of the posterior inguinal wall and tenotomy of the adductors has lead to satisfactory results in over 90% of athletes with chronic groin pain who failed to improve with conservative treatment. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Acta orthopaedica Belgica. - Bruxelles, 1946 - 2002
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Bruxelles
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2012
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0001-6462
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78
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(2012)
, p. 35-40
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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