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    Lack of advantages of slit mesh placement during laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair (TAPP): a single centre, case matched study

    During laparoscopic trans-abdominal pre-peritoneal hernia repair (TAPP) the positioning of the mesh around the spermatic cord could provide an additional anchoring point and ensure better defect closure, there...

    Umberto Bracale, Jacopo Andreuccetti, Maurizio Sodo, Giovanni Merola in BMC Surgery (2018)

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    Laparoscopic treatment of abdominal unicentric castleman’s disease: a case report and literature review

    Castleman’s disease is a rare lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown etiology that most commonly presents as a mediastinal nodal mass. It is exceptionally uncommon for Castleman’s disease to present in the me...

    Umberto Bracale, Francesco Pacelli, Marco Milone, Umberto Marcello Bracale in BMC Surgery (2017)