Background: Despite the advent of innovative surgical platforms and operative techniques, a
definitive indication of the best surgical option for the treatment of unilateral primary inguinal …

Background Inguinal hernia has a lifetime incidence of 27% in men and 3% in women.
Surgery is the recommended treatment, but there is no consensus on the best method. Open …

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 Inguinal hernia repair using surgical mesh is a very common surgical operation.
Currently, there is no consensus on the best technique for mesh fixation. We conducted an …

Purpose The development of chronic pain is one of the major post-surgery problems after
inguinal hernia repair. Although the possibility of chronic pain formation decreases with …

Background. The laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal inguinal hernia repair (TEP), unlike the
Lichtenstein tension-free mesh repair, allows for inspecting the femoral canal area for the …

Background This was a prospective, multicentre, non-blinded, randomized clinical trial
involving two parallel groups of patients. Methods Adult patients with symptomatic unilateral …

Purpose Laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal hernia repair (TEP) is a widely used treatment
for inguinal hernia. Single-incision laparoscopic TEP (SILTEP) has attracted the attention of …

To achieve a tension-free repair and reduce the recurrence rate of abdominal wall hernias
(AWHs), various kinds of meshes have been applied in surgery. However, these meshes are …

The aim of this study is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of different modifications of the
trans-abdominal pre-peritoneal (TAPP) repair of groin hernia. Data were collected …