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"question": "For a male patient with a large, growing right inguinal hernia containing bowel (no obstruction), urinary difficulty, constipation, absent distal IVC and common iliac vessels, extensive subcutaneous varicosities over the right groin and abdomen, pelvic/internal iliac collateralisation, and a history of unprovoked DVTs requiring open repair, which specialist is more appropriate: an upper gastrointestinal surgeon or a colorectal surgeon?"
}For a male patient with a large, growing right inguinal hernia containing bowel (no obstruction), urinary difficulty, constipation, absent distal IVC and common iliac vessels, extensive subcutaneous varicosities over the right groin and abdomen, pelvic/internal iliac collateralisation, and a history of unprovoked DVTs requiring open repair, which specialist is more appropriate: an upper gastrointestinal surgeon or a colorectal surgeon?
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