title: Femoral nerve injury following inguinal hernia repair.
abstract: Insidious leg pain and weakness followed inguinal hernia repair. Despite the temporal relationship of the surgery and the symptoms, the diagnosis proved elusive, in part, because of the rarity of the complication.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005267:Femoral Nerve / Q000293:injuries*; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009133:Muscular Atrophy / Q000209:etiology*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed