International Scholarly Research Notices
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 839681, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/839681
Clinical Study
Chronic Pain after Inguinal Hernia Repair
Department of General Surgery, Victoria Hospital, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore 560002, India
Received 19 July 2014; Revised 2 December 2014; Accepted 2 December 2014; Published 15 December 2014
Academic Editor: Abdulrahman Saleh Al-Mulhim
Copyright © 2014 Mallikarjuna Manangi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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