Background Groin hernia repair is one of the most common operations performed globally,
with more than 20 million procedures per year. The last guidelines on groin hernia …

Purpose We aimed to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing
postoperative outcomes in inguinal hernia repair with TIPP versus Lichtenstein technique …

Purpose The transinguinal preperitoneal (TIPP) technique is an open approach to groin
hernia repair with posteriorly positioned mesh supposed to reduce recurrence rates …

1. Sample size calculation: the number of patients needed to obtain a statistical power of 0.9
is wrong. With a sample of 100 patients in each treatment group (or 122 and 117, which was …

Antecedentes: La patología, hernia inguinal es considerada un problema de salud pública
mundial, se diagnostican y se reparan aproximadamente 20 millones de casos nuevos cada …

Background: Over recent decades, surgical treatments for groin hernias have been largely
categorized into the endoscopic posterior approach and the classic Liechtenstein-type …

The premise of the article is quite interesting and it seeks to compare the two procedures
TIPP and TEP in terms of their long-term outcomes. I have a few issues regarding this article …