The British Hernia Centre is a private free-standing day surgery clinic offering ambulatory
abdominal wall hernia repair under local anesthesia. The authors' experience of the …

Background: The aim of the present randomized trial was to compare the Shouldice
procedure and the Lichtenstein hernia repair with respect to recurrence rate, technical …

Objective To compare the Lichtenstein, tension-free mesh, and the Shouldice, 4-layer
Bassini repair of the inguinal hernia. Design Prospective randomized clinical trial. Setting A …

BACKGROUND Inguinal hernia surgery has undergone numerous advances in the last few
years. This study analysed the changes in the practice of one surgeon in a district general …

Objective: To analyze the relative risk of reoperation for recurrence using 3 anesthetic
alternatives, general anesthesia (GA), regional (spinal-, epidural-) anesthesia (RA), and …

We present a prospective randomized study of 80 patients with inguinal hernia who
underwent either a modified Bassini repair (n= 38) or a Lichtenstein mesh repair (n= 42) …

A comment on this article appears in" Early results with Lichtenstein tension-free hernia
repair." Br J Surg. 1995 Mar; 82 (3): 418. A comment on this article appears in" Early results …

In the knowledge that Lichtenstein inguinal hernia repair is becoming increasingly popular
we evaluated this technique in a prospective randomized study. Would the Lichtenstein …

Background The use of mesh for groin hernia repair has dramatically changed the way this
common operation is performed. The aim of this study was to survey the methods of groin …

There are about 200,000 hernia repairs per year in Germany and about 770,000 in the US.
In the United States most hernia repairs (80-90%) are performed as day surgery procedure; …