Inguinal hernias are common in preterm infants.

Open Access

1 July 1985

journal article
research article
Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood

Vol. 60 (7) , 669-670
https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.60.7.669

Abstract

The incidence of inguinal hernia was compared in term and preterm infants. The risk was considerably higher in the preterm group in both sexes. No particular complications of preterm birth were found to predispose to inguinal hernia.

Keywords

BIRTH
PREDISPOSE
SEXES
INGUINAL
PRETERM INFANTS
COMMON IN PRETERM
HERNIAS ARE COMMON

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Pediatrics, 1975
On the origin and nature of hernia
British Journal of Surgery, 1924