… incidence of femoral hernias after inguinal hernia repair compared … These femoral recurrences
occurred earlier than inguinal … procedures for unilateral and 4,289 for bilateral 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, …

… primary inguinal hernia repairs had a 10% to 30% recurrence rate and that the rate was >35%
for recurrent hernia repairs [… This repair has been described as a simple procedure that is …

… As the ultimate procedure which each surgeon decides to … repair is the most common
open mesh-based repair. Minimally invasive approaches to unilateral inguinal hernia repairs …

… procedure amongst 3130 allocated laparoscopic repairs and 5 (0.1%) open procedures
were converted to a laparoscopic repair amongst 3541 allocated open repairs (Comparison …

… and the most difficult procedures, and prosthetic materials ushered in the current era of
inguinal hernia repair. Tension-free inguinal hernia repair is based on reinforcement of the …

… of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair is cost. In … procedure is less costly (in the range of
hundreds of dollars) than a TAPP procedure, but both are more expensive than an open repair. …

… We postulate that the most cost-beneficial method of hernia repair for implementation in
LMICs is using open-mesh procedures with sterilised mosquito net under local anaesthetic. …

… One open procedure for recurrent hernia failed because of the presence of a previously …
We conclude that the new technique of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair causes less pain …

… 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 …