ReviewSurgery today2023
Postoperative perineal hernia repair: what is the evidence?
Review in Surgery today, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Minimally invasive versus open abdominoperineal resection and the risk of postoperative perineal hernia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Perineal hernia following extra-levator abdominoperineal resection: prevalence, associated risk factors and types of perineal closure. a single-centre descriptive study.Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery · 2026Article
- Two Cases of Secondary Anterior Perineal Hernia Repaired with a Pedicled Gracilis Muscle Flap.Surgical case reports · 2026Article
- Perineal hernia repair with a combined abdominoperineal approach with biologic mesh placement and peritoneal flap reconstruction.Journal of surgical case reports · 2024Article
- Rare case of strangulated primary acquired perineal hernia causing small bowel obstruction requiring emergency operative repair.Journal of surgical case reports · 2024Article
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Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
The present study determined the characteristics of perineal hernia treatment in the literature, and the incidence of postoperative recurrence was stratified according to repair techniques. A systematic search of the available literature on the treatment of postoperative perineal hernias was performed using a major database. The types of repair techniques and outcome were entered into an electronic database and a pooled analysis was performed. A total of 213 cases of postoperative perineal hernia repair were collected from 20 relevant articles in the literature after excluding case reports (n < 3). Synthetic mesh was the material used most frequently for perineal hernia repair (55.9%). The most frequently used approach in perineal hernia repair was the perineal approach (56.5%). The recurrence rate was highest with the use of biological mesh (40.4%) and the perineal approach (35.6%). The recurrence rate was lowest in the combined abdominal & perineal approach (0%), followed by the abdominal approach (8.8%) and the laparoscopic approach (11.8%). A number of different repair techniques have been described in the literature. The use of synthetic mesh via a combined abdominal-perineal approach or intraabdominal/laparoscopic approach was shown to be associated with a reduced postoperative recurrence rate.
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