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. 2017 Apr 1;13(3):702-704.
doi: 10.5114/aoms.2016.60403. Epub 2016 Jun 7.

Incarcerated recurrent inguinal hernia containing an acute appendicitis (Amyand hernia): an extremely rare surgical situation

Georgios Velimezis  1 , Nikolaos Vassos  2 , Georgios Kapogiannatos  1 , Dimitrios Koronakis  1 , Evangelos Perrakis  1 , Aristotelis Perrakis  2
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Incarcerated recurrent inguinal hernia containing an acute appendicitis (Amyand hernia): an extremely rare surgical situation

Georgios Velimezis et al. Arch Med Sci. .
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Catarrhal appendicitis in a recurrent inguinal Hernia
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