Twenty-year experience with laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair in infants and children: considerations and results on 1833 hernia repairs

ConclusionsOn the basis of our twenty-year experience, we prefer to perform IH repair in children using laparoscopy rather than inguinal approach. Laparoscopy is as fast as inguinal approach, and it has the advantage to treat during the same anesthesia a contralateral patency occured in about 40  % of our cases and to treat also rare hernias in about 3 % of cases.
Source: Surgical Endoscopy - Category: Surgery Source Type: research