Background The enhanced view totally extraperitoneal (eTEP) approach is becoming
increasingly more widely accepted as a promising technique in the treatment of ventral …

Aim Incisional hernia (IH) occurs approximately in 15% of patients after midline surgery.
Surgical treatment for IHs include a solely open or solely laparoscopic approach with mesh …

Introduction: While the proportion of emergency groin hernia repairs in developed countries
is 2.5–7.7%, the percentage in developing countries can be as high as 76.9%. The mortality …

Purpose Every year around 70,000 people in Germany suffer from an abdominal incisional
hernia that requires surgical treatment. Five years after reconstruction about 25% reoccur …

Objective: To describe national trends in surgical technique and rates of reoperation for
recurrence for patients undergoing ventral hernia repair (VHR) in the United States …

Background Open sublay and laparoscopic IPOM repair have specific disadvantages and
risks. In recent years, this evidence led to a paradigm shift and induced the development of …

Background Open approaches for esophagectomy are often still useful; of these, left
thoracoabdominal esophagectomy (TAE) is poorly understood and often criticized. Hence …

Introduction Groin hernia repair is performed increasingly more often as an outpatient
procedure across the world. However, the rates are extremely different and vary between …

Purpose The use of open intra-peritoneal onlay mesh repairs (O-IPOMs) for treating
medium/large incisional ventral hernias has come into question due to the development of …

Introduction Different approaches and mesh positions are used for minimally invasive
ventral hernia repair (MIS-VHR). Our aim was to evaluate the trends and short-term …