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Table 1.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
• Documented outcomes following Laparoscopic indirect inguinal hernia repair • Documented used study techniques: Laparoscopic circumferential dissection and suture (LCDS) or Laparoscopic suture (LS) • Study population < 18 yrs	• Open inguinal hernia repairs or other abdominal hernias (Direct, femoral, umbilical, epigastric, etc.) • Studies with < 10 patients • Failure to report recurrence rates • Non-English language studies

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

• Documented outcomes following Laparoscopic indirect inguinal hernia repair

• Documented used study techniques: Laparoscopic circumferential dissection and suture (LCDS) or Laparoscopic suture (LS)

• Study population < 18 yrs

• Open inguinal hernia repairs or other abdominal hernias (Direct, femoral, umbilical, epigastric, etc.)

• Studies with < 10 patients

• Failure to report recurrence rates

• Non-English language studies