This article ‘New worldwide guidelines for treatment of inguinal hernia. The most important recommendations from HerniaSurge’ published in Der Chirurg, DOI 10.1007/s00104-017-0386-3 [Epub ahead of print] has been retracted at the request of the author. There is a conflict of intellectual property ownership of the published material. The research presented in this article originated from Hernia Surge. However, the project has been extended and the results are not final. This means the author may not publish work that originated from the project at this time. The author apologizes sincerely for this oversight. The online version of this article contains the full text of the retracted article as electronic supplementary material.