title: Laparoscopic repair of abdominal incisional hernia.
abstract: Abdominal incisional hernia is a common complication after open abdominal operations. Laparoscopic procedures have obvious mini-invasive advantages for surgical treatment of abdominal incisional hernia, especially to cases with big hernia defect. Laparoscopic repair of incisional hernia has routine mode but the actual operations will be various according to the condition of every hernia. Key points of these operations include design of the position of trocars, closure of defects and fixation of meshes. The details of these issues and experiences of perioperative evaluation and treatment will be talked about in this article.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, the University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518053, China.
authors.forename: Xue-Fei
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital & Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Shenzhen 518020, China.
authors.forename: Jia-Lin
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Liu
keywords: Incisional hernia; fixation; laparoscopic repair; mesh