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Parviz K. Amid, MD
Los Angeles, Calif

Arch Surg. 2004;139:130.

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Before laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair was pioneered in the early 1990s, exploiting the preperitoneal space was limited to the repair of recurrent inguinal hernias in the hands of a limited number of surgeons (eg, Lloyd Nyhus, MD, Robert Condon, MD, Rene Stoppa, MD, Raymond Read, MD, and George Wantz, MD). Since the laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair was introduced, more attention has been focused on using the preperitoneal space for mesh placement in the repair (open and laparoscopic) of both primary and recurrent inguinal hernias. As a result, many surgical procedures (such as the Stoppa procedure, Wantz procedure, the Kugel procedure, and the Ugahary approach) and devices (such as the Kugel hernia patch [Davol Inc, Cranston, RI], WINGS mesh [Angiologica, San Martino Siccomario, Italy], Bard 3D Max mesh [Davol Inc], Folding mesh [SOFRADIM International, Trévoux, France], Anatomic mesh [SOFRADIM International], Obtura mesh [Cousin Biotech SAS, Wervicq-Sud, France], . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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