Management of Abdominal Hernias

Andrew N Kingsnorth, MS,FRCS,FACS Professor of Surgery and Consultant Surgeon, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK Karl A. LeBlanc, MD, MBA, FACS Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Institute and Fellowship Program, Baton Rouge, LA, USA; Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Louisiana State University of Medicine, New Orleans; in private practice at the Surgical Specialty Group Inc, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. He is the founding member and past president of the American Hernia Society, and he is on the editorial boards of the journals, Hernia, Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. He has edited the textbooks Laparoscopic Hernia Surgery (Hodder Arnold) and Management of Laparoscopic Surgical Complications (Marcel Dekker). He has also authored over 90 articles and book chapters on hernia, laparoscopic surgery, and socioeconomics of surgery.

Preface.- Preface to the Third Edition.- General Introduction and History of Hernia Surgery.- Essential Anatomy of the Abdominal Wall.- Epidemiology and Etiology of Primary Groin Hernias.- Logistics.- Economics of Hernia Repair.- Principles in Hernia Surgery.- Prostheses and Products for Hernioplasty.- Biology of Prosthetics.- Anesthesia.- Complications of Hernia in General.- Inguinal Hernias in Children.- Umbilical Hernia in Babies and Children.- Diagnosis of a Lump in the Groin in the Adult.- Anterior Open Repair of Inguinal Hernia in Adults.- Extraperitoneal or Preperitoneal Open Repair of Groin Hernias Using Prosthetic Reinforcement.- Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair.- Femoral Hernia.- Umbilical, Epigastric, Spigelian Hernias.- Lumbar Hernia.- Hernias of the Pelvic Wall.- Incisional Hernia: The “Open” Techniques (Excluding Parastomal Hernia).- Laparoscopic Incisional and Ventral Hernia Repair.- Parastomal Hernia.- The Laparoscopic Repair of Parastomal Hernias.- Complications of Laparoscopic Incisional and Ventral Hernia Repair.- Sports Hernias and Athletic Pubalgia.