… study confirmed the same for primary inguinal hernia surgery. Furthermore, this study also
showed that well trained senior trainees have equally good results for inguinal hernia repair …

… randomized clinical trials that compared laparoscopic and open methods of inguinal hernia
repair… This was because the method of randomization was not defined in a number of studies…

… underwent herniotomy with a high ligation of the hernial sac in 21 patients (6%), a combination
of this procedure with a narrowing of the internal ring in 44 patients (12%), a Shouldice …

… an operation for a sliding hernia resulted in a Shouldice … We therefore think that future
randomized studies should … of surgery for recurrent inguinal hernia, such studies inevitably …

… Zieren J, Zieren HU, Said S, Muller JM (1998) Prospective randomized study comparing
laparoscopic and open tensionfree inguinal hernia repair with Shouldice’s operation. Am J Surg …

… was to measure the force required to disrupt laparoscopic and open mesh repairs in a
porcine model. Eleven pigs had inguinal hernia repair following randomization to an open mesh …

… Our randomized study revealed that the incidence of chronic groin pain during normal daily
activities was similar between the 2 groups which compliment the findings by Picchio et al. …

… of this study was to analyze and evaluate the long-term recurrence rate and risk factors for
inguinal hernia … Of these, 229 patients with 293 inguinal hernias were treated by the Shouldice …

… always used in groin hernia surgery; whereas in routine surgical practice, regional or general
anaesthesia are the methods of choice. In this three-arm multicentre randomised trial, we …

… , unselected inguinal hernia repairs were done in our institution which is a fi rst line treatment
… of a prospective randomized study of Cooper’s ligament versus Shouldice herniorrhaphy …