An aponeurotic defect permitting organ protrusion out of its residential cavity defines a
hernia. Since 1500 BC, the earliest recorded case of an inguinal hernia, the diagnosis and …

Pressure on health care providers is growing due to capping of remuneration for medical
services in most Western European countries. We wanted to investigate, if robotic-assisted …

Introduction Since the first laparoscopic incisional hernia repair, several minimally invasive
procedures have been developed in abdominal wall repair. In 2017, the extended totally …

In the evolution of hernia repair, we have learnt that maximally invasive surgical
interventions for hernia repair such as long incisions, extensive tissue mobilization and …

Component separation technique (CST) allows the mobilization of large musculofascial
flaps of the abdominal wall and was developed for the treatment of very large, primary and …

The approach to surgical repair of ventral hernias remains a much debated topic but
laparoscopic ventral hernia repair is a well-established technique. Compared with open …

Abstract Introduction: In 1993 Leblanc published his laparoscopic technique in ventral
hernia repair. The procedure has been improved due to deeply change of the paradigm in …

Background Although the open transversus abdominis release (oTAR) is an effective
operation for large ventral hernias, it is historically associated with a relatively long length of …

Background: Enhanced-view extended totally extraperitoneal repair (eTEP) technique for
laparoscopic retromuscular ventral hernia (VHR) repair is a novel application recently …

The objective of our study was to compare length of stay and wound complications after
hybrid robotic transversus abdominis release (hrTAR) vs. robotic transversus abdominis …