Hernia Surgery Crossword

What type of hernias occur due to a weakness, gap, or opening in the muscles or tendons of the upper adbominal wall, on a line between the breast bone and the navel or umbilicus?
What is a hernia that appears in the abdomen at the site of a previous surgery? Also, known as a ventral hernia.
These hernias represent approximately two thirds of adult hernias and are much more common in men than in women.
What type of repair techniques use a piece of mesh to bridge the hernia defect?
Femoral hernias are prone to develop incarceration. What is the term used when the tissue is trapped and blood supply cut off?
These hernias may occur in infants at or just after birth and may resolve by three or four years of age.
Children's hernias are almost always (opposed to acquired)
What are laparoscopic tension free hernia repair called? This term is used because the hernia is being repaired from behind the abdominal wall.
When inguinal hernias are repaired in this fashio the recurrence rates may be higher than 15%, which means that the hernia may reappear in time.
An indirect inguinal hernia occurs through the natural weakness in the internal?
What type of hernias are slightly different, they are a weakness or opening in the diaphragm which can lead to heartburn, pain, and erosion of the esophagus?
Sterile, woven material made from a synthetic plastic-like material.
A direct inguinal hernia is a result of weakness in the floor of the? These hernias is more likely to develop in men over the age of 40.
These hernias appear just below the groin crease and are usually the result of pregnancy and childbirth.