SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.21 issue7Herpes zoster in a childEducation at work in higher medical teaching author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

  • Have no cited articlesCited by SciELO

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


MEDISAN

On-line version ISSN 1029-3019

Abstract

JAEN OROPEZA, Adolfo Rafael; GODERICH LALAN, José Miguel Gonzalo  and  QUEVEDO TAMAYO, Miguel Ángel. Prosthetics repair of a post-traumatic lumbar hernia in an adult. MEDISAN [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.7, pp.906-912. ISSN 1029-3019.

The case report of a 45 years patient who had an industrial accident with a blunt metallic object that caused him bruised trauma in the right lumbosacral region is described. After 30 days of this trauma, he noticed increase of volume in the affected area and went to the hernia surgery service of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" University General Hospital, where he was clinically diagnosed with a right post-traumatic lumbar hernia. He was operated in an elective way with orotracheal anesthesia. Antimicrobian and antithrombotic prophylaxis was carried out; also, a polypropylene preperitoneal prosthesis was implanted. There were not perioperative complications and the patient had follow up during 3 years, without recurrences

Keywords : adult; post-traumatic lumbar hernia; prosthetic repair; recurrence; secondary health care.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License All the contents of this journal, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License