ArticleHernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery2013
Laparoscopic repair of incarcerated inguinal hernia. A safe and effective procedure to adopt in children.
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- Laparoscopic versus open inguinal hernia repair in children ≤3: a randomized controlled trial.Pediatric surgery international · 2017Trial
- Exploration of laparoscopic day surgery mode for pediatric inguinal hernia: a large cohort study.Updates in surgery · 2025Article
- Single-site laparoscopic high ligation of the extraperitoneal hernia sac with an epidural needle for incarcerated ovarian hernia in infants.BMC surgery · 2022Article
- Percutaneous Internal Ring Suturing (PIRS) - The Benefits of Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2022Article
- Twenty-year experience with laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair in infants and children: considerations and results on 1833 hernia repairs.Surgical endoscopy · 2017Article
- Treatment for incarcerated indirect hernia with "Cross-Internal Ring" inguinal oblique incision in children.Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences · 2017Article
- Percutaneous internal ring suturing as a first choice laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair method in girls: a single-center study in 148 patients.Pediatric surgery international · 2016Article
- A feasibility of single-incision laparoscopic percutaneous extraperitoneal closure for treatment of incarcerated inguinal hernia in children: our preliminary outcome and review of the literature.Nagoya journal of medical science · 2016Article
- An incarcerated appendix and the ileocecum within a left inguinal hernia in an infant.Surgical case reports · 2015Article
- Incarcerated inguinal hernia management in children: 'a comparison of the open and laparoscopic approach'.Pediatric surgery international · 2014Article
- Outcomes of laparoscopic incarcerated inguinal hernia repair in children.Journal of minimal access surgeryReview
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Abstract
backgroundThe purpose of our retrospective study was to describe the efficacy and the advantages of laparoscopic approach to treat incarcerated inguinal hernia (IIH) in pediatric patients.
methodsIn a 2-year period, 601 children underwent a laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, 46 (7.6 %) of them presented an IIH. Our study will be focused on these 46 patients: 30 boys and 16 girls (age range 1 month-8 years).
resultsTwenty-one/46 hernias (45.6 %) were reduced preoperatively and then operated laparoscopically (RH), 25/46 (54.4 %) were irreducible and they were operated directly in laparoscopy (IRH). We have no conversions in our series. The length of surgery in RH group was in median 23 min and in IRH group was in median 30 min. Hospital stay was variable between 6 h and 3 days (median 36 h).With a minimum follow-up of 14 months, we had 2/46 recurrences (4.3 %).
conclusionThe laparoscopic approach to IIH appears easy to perform from the technical point of view. The 3 main advantages of laparoscopic approach are that all edematous tissue are surgically bypassed and the cord structures are not touched; the reduction is performed under direct visual control, and above all, an inspection of the incarcerated organ is performed at the end of procedure.
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