BACKGROUND Transabdominal Preperitoneal (TAPP) and Lichtenstein operation are established methods for inguinal hernia repair in clinical practice. Meta-analyses of randomized controlled studies, comparing those two methods for repair of primary inguinal hernia, are still missing. In this study, a systematic review and meta-analysis of published randomized controlled trials was performed to comp...

AIM The aim of this retrospective study is to compare the immediate and long-term postoperative outcomes of Lichtenstein and Kugel repair of inguinal hernia. METHODS From 1996 to 2006, 219 consecutive patients underwent inguinal hernia repair - 92 using a standard Lichtenstein repair and 127 with a Kugel patch. Patient characteristics, length of postoperative hospital stay and complication ra...

Background: The Desarda technique of inguinal hernia repair which was introduced in 2001, is still not accepted widely as a standard tissue based technique. In our study we compared Desarda’s pure with Lichtenstein treatment primary hernia.Methods: 187 cases were allocated into 2 groups. Desarda-Group had 92 and Lichtenstein-Group 95 patients. Primary outcome factor early (

The lesion in bone named non-osteogenic fibroma by Jaffe and Lichtenstein in 1942 and later-and more satisfactorily-renamed metaphysial fibrous defect by Hatcher in 1945, has been considered by various authors to be a benign tumour of bone (Jaffe and Lichtenstein I 942), the outcome of a circulatory disturbance (Hatcher 1945, Aegerter and Kirkpatrick 1958), a developmental defect (Cunningham an...

Lichtenstein intervention is currently the classic model of the regulated treatment of inguinal hernias by direct local approach. This "tension-free" technique satisfies both patients and practitioners. However, it does not often evade severe complications of parietal surgery. The authors report their treatment experience in rural Africa of a late enterocutaneous fistula which aggravated an ing...

Osteoid osteoma was first described as a distinctive benign osteoblastic tumour by Jaffe (1935). Lichtenstein (1965) defined osteoid osteoma as a small, oval or roundish tumour-like nidus composed of osteoid and trabeculae of newly formed bone deposited within a substratum of highly vascularised osteogenic connective tissue. This lesion has been reported in almost every bone but not previously ...

Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a benign intramedullary fibroosseous lesion originally described by Lichtenstein in 1938 and by Lichtenstein and Jaffe in 1942. 1 This is a benign dysplastic process of altered osteogenesis that may occur within a single bone (monostotic) or multiple bones (polyostotic), 2 and is best understood as a dysplastic anomaly of bone forming mesenchymal tissue. 3 It is a spor...

BACKGROUND The aim of this article was to compare the outcomes of the open preperitoneal approaches and the Lichtenstein technique in the repair of inguinal hernias. METHODS A systematic literature review was undertaken to identify studies comparing the outcomes of open preperitoneal and Lichtenstein techniques in the repair of inguinal hernias. RESULTS The present meta-analysis pooled the ...