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Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques
Early Experience with Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair in a District General National Health Services Hospital
To cite this article:
Tarun Singhal, Santosh Balakrishnan, Andrew Paix, Shamsi El-Hasani.
Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques.
June 2005,
15(3): 285-289.
doi:10.1089/lap.2005.15.285.
Tarun Singhal, MRCS, MS, DNB, MNAMSPrincess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough, United Kingdom. Santosh Balakrishnan, MRCS, MSPrincess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough, United Kingdom. Andrew Paix, FANZCAPrincess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough, United Kingdom. Shamsi El-Hasani, FRCSPrincess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough, United Kingdom. The introduction of laparoscopic hernia repair into the National Health Services (NHS) gave us an opportunity to study the feasibility and practicality of carrying out this modern hernia repair technique in a district general NHS hospital. The laparoscopic tension-free transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) method of hernia repair, as we do it, is cost-effective and efficacious. Most patients can be treated as day cases. We discovered incidental hernias in 18.8% of patients, which were treated simultaneously. A low recurrence rate (0.17%) with low morbidity makes it an attractive method for routine treatment of groin hernias in the NHS.  This paper was cited by:Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: over a thousand convincing reasons to go on S. Balakrishnan, T. Singhal, T. Samdani, A. Hussain, S. Shuaib, S. Grandy-Smith, J. Nicholls, S. El-Hasani Hernia. Nov 2008, Vol. 12, No. 5: 493-498 CrossRef The economic impact of laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair: results of a double-blinded, prospective, randomized trial Ralph E. Butler, Rachel Burke, James J. Schneider, Harpreet Brar, Paul A. Lucha Surgical Endoscopy. Mar 2007, Vol. 21, No. 3: 387-390 CrossRef |
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