Laparoscopic repair of femoral hernia.
Laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia is mini-invasive and has confirmed effects. Femoral hernia could be repaired through the laparoscopic procedures for inguinal hernia. These procedures have clear anatomic view in the operation and preoperatively undiagnosed femoral hernia could be confirmed and treated. Lower recurrence ratio was reported in laparoscopic procedures compared with open procedures for repair of femoral hernia. The technical details of laparoscopic repair of femoral hernia, especially the differences to laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia are discussed in this article.
Department of Surgery, the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, the University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen 518053, China.
Xue-Fei
XF
Yang
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shenzhen People's Hospital & Second Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Shenzhen 518020, China.
Jia-Lin
JL
Liu
Femoral hernia; laparoscopic repair; mesh