Incisional hernias of the abdominal wall occur in up to 11% of all other postoperative patients and in as many as 23% of patients with postoperative wound infections. Trocar site hernias after laparoscopic surgery are reported in up to 6% of patients. Parastomal hernia formation occurs in 28% of ileostomies and 48% of colostomies. Morbidity depends on the location and contents of the hernia, as...

INTRODUCTION Suprapubic hernia is the term to describe ventral hernias located less than 4 cm above the pubic arch in the midline. Hernias with an upper margin above the arcuate line encounter technical difficulties, and the differences in repair methods forced us to define them as large suprapubic hernias. AIM To present our experience with laparoscopic repair of large suprapubic hernias tha...

BACKGROUND The tension-free hernioplasty as introduced by Lichtenstein has gained increasing acceptance during the last decade although the technique has not been evaluated in a randomized trial. METHODS This randomized study compares the 2-year follow-up results after 102 tension-free hernioplasties with implantation of a prolene mesh in all groin hernias to 53 Cooper ligament repairs in dir...

INTRODUCTION Patients with giant hernias with loss of domain require proper planning of surgical repair, because of the high associated comorbidity. The progressive preoperative pneumoperitoneum technique described by Goñi Moreno allows a more physiological adaptation of the patient and the abdominal cavity to the reinstatement of the viscera to the abdomen, enabling adequate surgical repair. T...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this prospective study was to evaluate the association between bilateral inguinal hernias and colorectal cancers. PURPOSE Inguinal hernias are one of the most common subjects in surgical practice and have been known to be associated with some other pathologies since 1831. Although there are some series in literature reporting the association of colorectal cancers wit...

Spigelian hernia constitute about 0.12 to 0.2% of all abdominal hernias usually found between 50-60 yrs, affecting both sides and both sexes equally. The absence of typical hernia-type symptoms and the lack of physician experience with such hernias, makes early recognition difficult. The elective treatment of spigelian hernias is by open surgery, or by laparoscopy. The use of laparoscope has si...

Internal hernia is defined as the protrusion of an abdominal organ through a peritoneal or mesenteric aperture. It is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction. The incidence of these hernias is estimated at between 0, 2 and 2% of abdominal hernias, and 0.2% to 0.9% of autopsies [1,2]. It can be primitive or secondary to an abdominal intervention. Internal hernias are classified based on the loca...

Herniation of urinary bladder is rare [1] and when present, it commonly involves either inguinal or femoral canal accounting for almost 1-3 % of all inguinal hernias [2]. Very often such hernias are asymptomatic and turns out to be an incidental finding in an imaging carried out for some other clinical indications [3]. Inguinal hernias may be direct or indirect. Indirect inguinal hernia protrud...