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**Laparoscopic Incisional Hernia Repair** 

*Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Bern University Hospital* 

An incisional hernia (Fig 1.) is defined as any abdominal wall gap with or without a bulge in the area of a postoperative scar perceptible or palpable by clinical examination or imaging [1]. Incisional hernia is a common long-term complication following abdominal surgery and is estimated to occur in 11-23% [2, 3]. Risk factors for incisional hernia are male gender, body

**1. Introduction** 

mass index, cancer, and previous laparotomy [4, 5].

Fig. 1. Clinical presentation of a patient with a large incisional hernia

in hernia repair was downsized [7].

Conventional hernia repair with tissue approximation was associated with a recurrence rate of 60%. Theodore Billroths vision was the source of changes in hernia repair. Billroth told to his pupil Cerny: "If we could artificially produce tissues of the density and toughness of fascia and tendon the secret of the radical cure of hernia would be discovered". This statement appeard in the classic Beiträge zur Chirurgie in 1987. Francic C. Usher introduced 1957 a polypropylene based prosthesis to bridge the hernia defect and to reinforce the abdominal wall without tension [6]. With the implantation of prosthesis the recurrence rate

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