… With more than 20 million patients annually, inguinal hernia repair is one of the most
often performed surgical procedures worldwide. The lifetime risk to develop an inguinal …

… Inguinal hernia repair is the most common procedure in general and visceral surgery
worldwide. In Germany, more than 200,000 operations are performed every year, and in the USA, …

… of these patients had numerous prior procedures, including a hernia repair with PPM. Several
of these series converted to the open procedure because of an observed enterotomy. Most …

… inguinal hernia repair and the "Lichtenstein" polypropylene tension-free mesh procedure.
The null hypothesis for this study was that there is no difference between the 2 repairs in …

… , we used local anesthetic with sedation as necessary for the open inguinal hernia repairs
and general anesthetic for the laparoscopic hernia repairs. Only three patients under local …

… The procedure was refined between 1984 and 1989 and … procedure is considered the gold
standard for hernia repair by … a method of hernia repair similar to the Lichtenstein repair had …

… ICD9 procedure codes for incisional hernia repair with or … was the rate of reoperative
incisional hernia repair, length of … procedure code for laparoscopic incisional hernia repair, we …

… European Hernia Society, nine international experts in hernia repair … for hernia repair,
including defining optimal hernia repair … would improve the outcomes of hernia repair procedures. …

… laparoscopy have been associated with a rising incidence of incisional VH, which has
become the most common hernia repair procedure performed and is consistent with our findings. …

… Apparently, in quantifying return-to-work as an outcome measure, it does not matter what
mesh-based hernia repair technique is employed as long as the procedure is performed well …