Is Minimally Invasive Surgery the Standard of Care for Ventral Hernia Repair?

Kaushik Bhattacharya

Abstract

When patients undergoing ventral or incisional hernia repair are reoperated for recurrence with an incidence rate of 16.0% following open repair and 18.8% following minimally invasive repair, it is time for re-evaluation of the real benefit of laparoscopy in ventral hernia repair.