Laparoscopic techniques versus open techniques for inguinal hernia repair.

By K. McCormack, Neil W. Scott, P. Go, S. Ross, A. Grant. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2003

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European Hernia Society guidelines on the treatment of inguinal hernia in adult patients (2009, methodology): “The incidence are significantly higher for the endoscopic techniques than for open repairs.(39,199,274) Most seromas disappear spontaneously within a period of six to eight weeks.”
A Review of Chronic Pain After Inguinal Herniorrhaphy (2003, methodology): “The EU Hernia Trialists Collaboration highlighted the difficulty in conducting meta-analyses using peri- and post-operative complications because of poor description of primary outcome data.(27,28) Clearly, estimation of the true prevalence is difficult given such variation in reporting and differen”