Update in ventral hernia surgery
Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery (ALES), is dedicating this special issue to “Update in Ventral Hernia Surgery”, with outstanding Experts contributing with their experience and review of the latest news from scientific literature.
Abdominal Wall Hernia Surgery is one of the most challenging surgical procedures and has experienced important changes in the latest years in term of mesh technologies and surgical approaches like enhanced retromuscular approaches to robotic repair. This update will provide a platform to the all the surgeons and medical professionals for a full immersion in the latest news in abdominal wall hernia surgery.
In this special issue, the contributors will focus on the latest update in repair and technical challenges of the primary and incisional hernia repair, a review of the most popular technique and the important role of endo-laparoscopic and robotic repair.
We are sure that all the Readers will appreciate the contents of each article and we should thank you all the worldwide experts team and authors for their excellent contributions.
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Provenance and Peer Review: This article was commissioned by the editorial office, Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery for the series “Laparoscopic Colon Surgery”. The article did not undergo external peer review.
Conflicts of Interest: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/ales.2019.03.02). The series “Ventral Hernia” was commissioned by the editorial office without any funding or sponsorship. DL and AS served as the unpaid Guest Editor of the series. The authors have no other conflicts of interest to declare.
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Cite this article as: Lomanto D, Sharma A. Update in ventral hernia surgery. Ann Laparosc Endosc Surg 2019;4:31.
