A cost and outcome comparison between laparoscopic and Lichtenstein hernia operations in a day-case unit

Abstract

Although the Lichtenstein operation is cheaper for the hospital, the total costs for working patients are lower with the laparoscopic technique, when the cost of lost work days is factored into overall expense.

Endoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair in Comparison with Shouldice and Lichtenstein Repair

“…Thirty-three randomized controlled trials with a total of 5,053 random patients were used for the evaluation [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45]. Due to the separate publication of partial aspects [40, 45]and late results [11, 12, 14, 18], a total of 36 publications was analyzed.…”

Combination of Liechtenstein Repair with Herniorrhaphy in Open Inguinal Hernia Repair- A Prospective Observational Single Center Study

“…Approximately 20 million groin hernioplasties are performed each year worldwide, over 17,000 operations in Sweden, over 12,000 in Finland, over 80,000 in England and over 8,00,000 in the USA [25][26][27][28][29]. Countless studies have been reported in the medical literature in attempts to improve the overall out-comes following hernia operations and, due to this fact, the procedure has The postoperative complications with LR + Herniorrhaphy [Table / Fig 14] in the study subjects approximate to 0.02% (n=13), that is very less.…”

A prospective study of laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia by intraperitoneal onlay mesh technique using fibrin glue

“…[5][6][7] In spite of all these benefits, the use of laparoscopy in inguinal hernia surgery has not been established among surgeons on a wide scale.…”