Background The place of laparoscopic groin hernia repair remains controversial. Individual
randomized controlled trials alone have not provided statistically reliable results when …

The EU Hernia Trialists Collaboration was established to provide reliable evaluation of
newer methods of groin hernia repair. It involved 70 investigators in 20 countries. The aim …

Objective To compare laparoscopic with open hernia repair in a randomized clinical trial at a
median follow-up of 5 years. Summary Background Data Follow-up of patients in clinical …

BACKGROUND: Repair of a groin hernia is one of the most common elective operations
performed in general surgery. Our aim was to compare laparoscopic repair with open repair …

Introduction Worldwide, more than 20 million patients undergo groin hernia repair annually.
The many different approaches, treatment indications and a significant array of techniques …

Although the laparoscopic technique is a new approach to groin hernia, it is becoming more
widely accepted as an alternative to traditional open techniques. This study is a preliminary …

Background: This study was a pragmatic economic evaluation carried out alongside a
multicentre randomized controlled trial comparing laparoscopic with open groin hernia …

Background Inguinal hernia repair is the most frequently performed operation in general
surgery. The standard method for inguinal hernia repair had changed little over a hundred …

Background Open tension‐free methods of groin hernia repair have been widely adopted
despite little rigorous evaluation. Methods Information was assimilated from all randomized …

Laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy was first described by Ger, Schultz, Corbitt, and Filipi
in the early 1990s [1–4] and burst upon the surgical scene just after laparoscopic …