The history of open surgery for groin hernia has gone through many stages of development,
including the ancient era (ancient times to the fifteenth century), the era of the start of …

The repair of a simple inguinal hernia or a complicated incisional hernia no longer involves
just the sewing together of a defect in the musculature. Present-day hernia operations …

Background The aim was to conduct a meta-analysis of the randomized evidence to
determine the relative merits of laparoscopic (LIHR) and open (OIHR) inguinal hernia repair …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy
represents a viable alternative to the conventional repair and to assess whether a …

Because of the remarkable success of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, numerous
investigators have attempted to duplicate this success with laparoscopic herniorrhaphy. This …

Objective: To compare results and outcomes following laparoscopic and tension-free open
inguinal herniorrhaphy. Design: A prospective, nonrandomized trial of a single surgeon's …

Under the mandate of the Educational Committee of the European Association of
Endoscopic Surgery (EAES), three consensus development conferences (CDCs) were …

Background: Recently there has been interest in performing laparoscopic herniorrhaphies
without the use of staples or tacks to fix the mesh. Although mesh fixation has been linked to …

Laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy was first described by Ger, Schultz, Corbitt, and Filipi
in the early 1990s [1–4] and burst upon the surgical scene just after laparoscopic …

No randomized trial exists that specifically addresses the issue of laparoscopic bilateral
inguinal hernia repair. The purpose of the present prospective, randomized, controlled …