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Epidemiology

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Femoral herniae have the following points in their epidemiology:

  • third most common type of groin hernia after direct and indirect inguinal hernias
  • less common than inguinal hernias in both men and women
  • four times more common in women than men:
  • one third of all groin hernias in women
  • 2% of all groin hernias in men
  • higher frequency in parous women
  • twice as common on the right than the left side

Reference

  1. HerniaSurge Group. International guidelines for groin hernia management. Hernia. 2018 Feb;22(1):1-165

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