The OBJECTIVE was to evaluate the technical feasibility of endoscopic hernioplasty in recurrent inguinal hernia. METHODS AND MATERIALS. Personal experience of the authors covers more than 10 000 laparoscopic inguinal hernioplasties operated in 1996-2018. This paper analyzes the results of 127 patients treated for recurrent inguinal hernias after primary laparoscopic approach, reoperated using minimally-invasive surgical techniques.RESULTS. Possible causes of relapses after primary hernioplasty, both after TAPP and TEP techniques, were analyzed. The technical features of performing repeated laparoscopic interventions in this group of patients were considered. The developed and implemented technical methods, the tactics of the surgical treatment, the choice of the prostheses' type and size used in patients with various kinds of recurrent inguinal hernias were described. Results of the study included an analysis of the treatment while recommendations on the technique of repeated surgical intervention of recurren
Translated title of the contributionLaparoscopic surgery for recurrent inguinal hernias
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)46-50
Number of pages5
JournalВестник хирургии им. И.И. Грекова
Volume179
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

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