The delicate balance between over- and underdiagnosis in older people: a simple inguinal hernia?

Age Ageing. 2021 Jun 28;50(4):1429. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afab087.

Authors

Renée A G Brüggemann¹, Steffie H A Brouns¹, Elwin H H Mommers², Bart Spaetgens¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Section Geriatric Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
² Department of Radiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: geriatric surgery inguinal hernia; incarceration; older people; bowel obstruction.

MeSH terms

Aged
Hernia, Inguinal* / diagnosis
Hernia, Inguinal* / epidemiology
Hernia, Inguinal* / surgery
Humans