Presented by Adam S Weltz, MD at the SS06: Ventral Hernias held during the 2017 SAGES Annual Meeting in Houston, TX on Thursday, March 23, 2017
Keyword(s): activity limitations, back hand, balloon dissecting trocar, Calcutta, camera, Carolinas Comfort Scale, Colombia, dehiscence, demographics, diastasis recti, direct access, dissection, drain, enhanced-view totally extraperitoneal technique, eTEP, fibrin glue, hernia defect, interventional radiology, intraoperative complications, laparoscopic retromuscular hernia repair, lateral port, linea alba, mesh, mesh fixation, multiport, North America, novel approach, obese, Ohio, operative outcomes, pain, perioperative, plane, pneumoperitoneum, posterior, postoperative complication, QOL, quality of life, rectus abdominis, recurrent ventral/incisional hernia repair, retrospective review, Rives-Stoppa, Romania, seroma, South America, symptomatic, ventral hernias, ventral/incisional hernia repair, working instruments
Citation–12 sec Surg Innov 2016
eTEP–31 sec Surg Endosc 2012
Video clip–47 sec
Aim–2:16
Methods–3:04
Carolinas Comfort Scale–3:10
Conclusion–6:15