Table 1.

Characteristics of selected studies considered in the systematic review

	Claus et al.[5]		Dulucq et al.[12]		Le Page et al.[13]		Sakon et al.[14]		Wauschkuhn et al.[15]
	Prospective		Prospective case-control		Prospective case-control		Retrospective		Prospective
	Prostatectomy	No control	Prostatectomy	Control	Prostatectomy	Control	Prostatectomy	No control	Prostatectomy	Control
Number of patients	20		10	124	52	102	40		107	10,962
Number of hernias	25		10	124	65	138	45		132
Type of repair	TAPP		TEP	TEP	TEP	TEP	TAPP		TAPP	TAPP
Minor intraoperative complications (n)	1		2	1	0	0	0		0
Major intraoperative complications	0		0	0	0	0	0		0
Conversions to open	0		0	0	1	0	0
Post-operative complications, n (%)	4		0	1	8	11	3		2	2.8%
Recurrence	0		0	0	0	1	0		0	0.7%

TAPP or TEP laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair. TEP: Totally extraperitoneal, TAPP: Transabdominal preperitoneal