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Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair

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The first report of a hernia repair using laparoscopy was made by Ralph Ger in 1982 [1]. In a patient with right indirect inguinal hernia the neck of the sac was closed with a series of staples using an operating laparoscope and a cannula placed in the right iliac fossa. Although this procedure was carried out in November 1979, Ger states that the first patient to be treated by laparoscopic closure of the neck of the sac was under the care of Dr Fletcher of the University of West Indies, Jamaica.

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LeBlanc, K.A., Allain, B.W., Streetman, W.C. (2013). Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair. In: Kingsnorth, A., LeBlanc, K. (eds) Management of Abdominal Hernias. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-877-3_16

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