Discomfort five years after laparoscopic and Shouldice inguinal hernia repair: a randomised trial with 867 patients. A report from the SMIL study group.

Background: In recent years long-term discomfort after inguinal hernia surgery has become an issue of great concern to hernia surgeons. Long-term results on discomfort from large randomised studies are sparse.

Methods: One-thousand one-hundred and eighty-three patients were randomised in a multicentre trial with the primary aim of comparing recurrence rates after laparoscopic TAPP and Shouldice repair.

[Reduction mammaplasty in Reykjavik, Iceland 1984-1993; An outcome analysis.].

Unlabelled: Breast reduction is an established and effective operation in reducing symptoms of macromastia (Hyperplasia mammae). This is one of the most common operation done by plastic surgeons today.

Objective: The purpose of this retrospective descriptive analysis was to determine the results of bilateral reduction mammaplasty in the period 1984-1993, at the department of Plastic Surgery, National University Hospital, Reykjavík, Iceland.

Changing the path of inguinal hernia surgery decreased the recurrence rate ten-fold. Report from a county hospital.

Objective: To audit the effect of changes in treatment of inguinal hernias on recurrence rate.

Design: Retrospective analysis of consecutive patients operated on in 1990 and prospective analysis of consecutive patients operated on in 1996. Follow up with questionnaire followed by selective clinical examination.

Forearm fractures in Malmö, Sweden. Changes in the incidence occurring during the 1950s, 1980s and 1990s.

Between the 1950s and the 1980s, the incidence of forearm fractures increased in the city of Malmö. We have now collected data on all forearm fractures during 1991 and 1992 and compared them with previously published data from 1953-1957 and 1980-1981. During the 1990s, 1314 individuals with wrist fractures and 125 with shaft fractures were recorded.