My baby has umbilical hernia, does he need surgery?
May 2023
I want to tell you about a situation that we encounter very often in the journal of a pediatric surgeon: umbilical hernia. We come across such strange situations... Tearful mothers who think they will lose their babies because of the swelling in the umbilical area, those who insist on attaching a metal coin to the umbilical hernia, and those who bring their very young babies for urgent umbilical hernia surgery... I wanted to briefly explain this...
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