Search results for "Unilateral inguinal hernia"

Contralateral processus closure to prevent metachronous inguinal hernia: A systematic review.

2019

Inguinal hernia repair is one of the most frequent operations in pediatric surgery and is increasingly performed laparoscopically. The latter introduced new momentum in the debate on the necessity of contralateral exploration, as the rates of contralateral patent processus vaginales and metachronous inguinal hernias determine whether a routine closure would be overtreatment or useful prevention.We searched MEDLINE via PubMed, Web of Science and Scopus at the 6th of September 2017; reference lists and CrossRef were snowballed for reports citing identified studies. Eligibility criteria were age18 years, preoperative diagnosis of unilateral hernia, laparoscopic evaluation, and publication sinc…