Open preperitoneal vs. open anterior repair for the treatment of emergency femoral hernia: a bicentric retrospective study.
V RodriguesM VerdaguerA Bravo-SalvaM MoratalR BlancoF Ochoa-SegarraJ A Pereira-RodríguezM López-CanoPublished in: Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery (2022)
Open preperitoneal approach may be superior to anterior approach in the emergency setting because it can avoid the morbidity of associated midline laparotomies, with a lower long-term recurrence rate.