Renal paratransplant hernia. An uncommon variant of internal hernia. Are we aware of it?

Transplantation

1 1st Department of Surgery Athens University School of Medicine "Laikon", General Hospital Athens, Greece 2 Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery University Hospital Essen, Germany.

Published: June 2014

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