Laparoscopic versus open repair of groin hernia: a randomised comparison

MRC Laparoscopic Groin Hernia Trial Group - The Lancet, 1999 - Elsevier
… general surgery. Our aim was to compare laparoscopic repair with open repair of groin hernia.
… Our findings lend support to the move towards laparoscopic hernia surgery becoming part …

Recurrences after conventional anterior and laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: a randomized comparison

MSL Liem, EB Van Duyn, Y van der Graaf… - … of surgery, 2003 - journals.lww.com
… recurrence rates after nonmesh open repairs. In many … repairs without mesh. Hence, our
conventional group may still be an appropriate control for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. …

Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials comparing open and laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair

MA Memon, NJ Cooper, B Memon… - … of British Surgery, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… the randomized evidence to determine the relative merits of laparoscopic (LIHR) and open
(OIHR) inguinal hernia repair. … hernias were repaired laparoscopically and 2972 hernias were …

Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of laparoscopic vs conventional inguinal hernia repairs

RS Chung, DY Rowland - Surgical endoscopy, 1999 - Springer
inguinal hernia, herniorrhaphy, laparoscopic hernia repair, and randomized controlled trial
of laparoscopic hernia repair… new randomized trial comparing laparoscopic and conventional …

Laparoscopic vs open inguinal hernia repair: a randomized, controlled trial

C Tanphiphat, T Tanprayoon, C Sangsubhan… - Surgical …, 1998 - Springer
… the adoption of laparoscopic hernia repair into our routine … a randomized controlled trial.
This paper reports the early results of the trial comparing laparoscopic with open inguinal hernia

Cost-effectiveness of extraperitoneal laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: a randomized comparison with conventional herniorrhaphy

MSL Liem, JAM Halsema, Y van der Graaf… - … of surgery, 1997 - journals.lww.com
Background Data Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair seems superior to open techniques
with respect to short-term results. An issue yet to be studied in depth remains the cost-…

Comparison of conventional anterior surgery and laparoscopic surgery for inguinal-hernia repair

MSL Liem, Y Van Der Graaf… - … England Journal of …, 1997 - Mass Medical Soc
… In the main analyses, we compared conventional open surgery and laparoscopic surgery
with respect to the interval between surgery and the diagnosis of a recurrence or the return to …

Randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic versus open mesh repair for inguinal hernia: outcome and cost

J Wellwood, MJ Sculpher, D Stoker, GJ Nicholls… - Bmj, 1998 - bmj.com
… Conclusion: This study confirms that laparoscopic hernia repair has considerable short term
… a randomised controlled trial we compared these two methods of inguinal hernia repair in …

Randomised controlled trial of laparoscopic versus open repair of inguinal hernia: early results

K Lawrence, D McWhinnie, A Goodwin, H Doll… - BMJ, 1995 - bmj.com
… Seven complications (12%) including vessel injury and early recurrence arose in the group
that had laparoscopic repair (difference in complication rate 10% (95% confidence interval 4…

Comparison of postoperative outcomes of laparoscopic vs open inguinal hernia repair

J Meier, A Stevens, M Berger, KI Makris, A Bramos… - … surgery, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
… prior work comparing open and laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernias. … randomized more
than 3500 patients to laparoscopic or open inguinal hernia repair and found that laparoscopic