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Authors’ Reply: Small and Laterally Placed Incisional Hernias Can be Safely Managed with an Onlay Repair

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  1. Department of Surgery and Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Academic Teaching Hospital of Charité Medical School, Vivantes Hospital, Neue Bergstrasse 6, 13585, Berlin, Germany

    Ferdinand Köckerling

  2. Department of General Surgery, Country Hospital Hochsteiermark, Steiermärkische Krankenanstaltengesellschaft m.b.H, Tragösserstrasse 1 and 1a, 8600, Bruck/Mur, Austria

    Rudolf Schrittwieser

  3. StatConsult GmbH, Halberstädter Strasse 40 a, 39112, Magdeburg, Germany

    Daniela Adolf & Martin Hukauf

  4. Department of General, Visceral and Oncological Surgery, Wilhelminenspital, 1160, Vienna, Austria

    Simone Gruber-Blum, René Fortelny & Alexander H. Petter-Puchner

  5. Medical Faculty Sigmund-Freud-Faculty, Freudplatz 1, 1120, Vienna, Austria

    René Fortelny

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Köckerling, F., Schrittwieser, R., Adolf, D. et al. Authors’ Reply: Small and Laterally Placed Incisional Hernias Can be Safely Managed with an Onlay Repair. World J Surg 43, 2947–2948 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-019-05099-4

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