Update of Guidelines for laparoscopic treatment of ventral and incisional abdominal wall hernias (International Endohernia Society (IEHS)): Part B.
R BittnerK BainV K BansalF BerrevoetJ Bingener-CaseyD ChenJ ChenP ChowbeyU A DietzA de BeauxG FerzliR FortelnyH HoffmannM IskanderZ JiLars Nannestad JørgensenR KhullarP KirchhoffF KöckerlingJ KukletaK LeBlancJ LiD LomantoF MayerV MeytesM MisraS Morales-CondeH NiebuhrD RadvinskyB RamshawD RanevW ReinpoldA SharmaR SchrittwieserB StechemesserB SutedjaJ TangJ WarrenD WeyheA WiegeringG WoesteQ YaoPublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2019)
Guidelines are recommendations based on best available evidence intended to help the surgeon to improve the quality of his daily work. However, science is a continuously evolving process, and as such guidelines should be updated about every 3 years. For a comprehensive reference, however, it is suggested to read both the initially guidelines published in 2014 together with the update. Moreover, the presented update includes also techniques which were not known 3 years before.