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Laparoscopic and Robotic Transabdominal Preperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair

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Groin/inguinal hernia repair (IHR) is one of the most commonly performed general surgery operations. Currently, an inguinal hernia can be repaired through an open, laparoscopic, or robotic-assisted approach. Herein, we detail our preoperative evaluation, patient selection and optimization, and postoperative management of a patient with a groin hernia as well as our minimally-invasive transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) approach, including both laparoscopic and robotic-assisted techniques, to the repair of a groin hernia.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Ivy N. Haskins

  2. Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Arielle J. Perez

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  1. Professor of Surgery and Fellow American College of Surgeons, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Marco G. Patti

  2. Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Amer H. Zureikat

  3. Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Alessandro Fichera

  4. Hospital Alemán of Buenos Aires, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Francisco Schlottmann

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Haskins, I.N., Perez, A.J. (2021). Laparoscopic and Robotic Transabdominal Preperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair. In: Patti, M.G., Zureikat, A.H., Fichera, A., Schlottmann, F. (eds) Techniques in Minimally Invasive Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67940-8_20

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