Authors: A Fingerhut B Millat N Bataille E Yachouchi C Dziri MJ Boudet A Paul
Publish Date: 2014/07/15
Volume: 15, Issue: 10, Pages: 1061-1065
Abstract
The 1994 meeting of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery EAES in Madrid highlighted a consensusdeveloping conference on the then new laparoscopic procedure for hernia repair The conference was chaired by A Paul from Cologne Germany and A Fingerhut from Poissy France The other members of the jury were B Millat France L Nyhus USA J Himpens Belgium JL Dulucq France V Schumpelick Germany E Laporte Rosello Spain C Klaiber Switzerland J Mouiel France P Go Netherlands and JH Alexandre France At that time there were in all only three randomized trials available for analysis Today there are more than 60 trials and more than 12500 patients have been entered into them An update presented this year in Vienna is summarized herein
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