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ArticleSurgery today2026

Trends in groin hernia repair in Japan: analysis of the 2023 annual report from the National Clinical Database.

Masanori Sato, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Saseem Poudel, Itsuro Nagae, Taketo Matsubara, Tatsuya Tazaki, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Ken Shirabe, Hideki Ueno, Takehiro Hachisuka and 1 more

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Article in Surgery today, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Masanori SatoHernia Registry Committee, Japanese Hernia Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Hiroyuki YamamotoDepartment of Healthcare Quality Assessment, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Saseem PoudelHernia Registry Committee, Japanese Hernia Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Itsuro NagaeHernia Registry Committee, Japanese Hernia Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Taketo MatsubaraHernia Registry Committee, Japanese Hernia Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Tatsuya TazakiHernia Registry Committee, Japanese Hernia Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Tsuyoshi TakagiHernia Registry Committee, Japanese Hernia Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Ken ShirabeThe Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokyo, Japan.
Hideki UenoDatabase Committee, The Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery, Tokyo, Japan.
Takehiro HachisukaHernia Registry Committee, Japanese Hernia Society, Tokyo, Japan.
Kyosuke MiyazakiHernia Registry Committee, Japanese Hernia Society, Tokyo, Japan. kyosukemiyazaki1@me.com.

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6 · The paper itself

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Endoscopic repairFemoral herniaGroin hernia repairLarge-scale hernia typesNational registry

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PMID41806210

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