Table 1.
Patients’ characteristics
| Age (years) | Gender | Body mass index (kg/m2) | Side | Comorbidities | Etiology | Index operation | Symptoms | Larger hernia diameter (mm) | Mesh dimension (cm) | Operative time (min) | Hospital stay (days) | Postoperative complications |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | Female | 25.4 | Left | None | Trocar site hernia | Laparoscopy for gynecological disease | Pain | 24 | 13 × 12 | 149 | 4 | None |
| 80 | Female | 27.3 | Left | None | Flank mini-laparotomy (specimen extraction) | Laparoscopy for unknown benign tumor | Pain | 25 | 10 × 10 | 135 | 10 | None |
| 63 | Male | 34.1 | Right | Hypertension, diabetes, obesity | Trocar site hernia | Laparoscopic-assisted inguinal hernia repair | Pain | 84 | 20 × 20 | 137 | 3 | None |
| 79 | Female | 27.2 | Left | Pulmonary disease, cardiac history | Flank laparotomy | Iliac crest bone harvesting | Pain, small bowel occlusion | 45 | 10 × 10 | 236 | 9 | Pneumonia |
| 56 | Female | 28.4 | Left | Hypertension, diabetes | Trocar site hernia | Laparoscopic-assisted bilateral adnexectomy | Pain | 15 | 10 × 10 | 133 | 3 | None |
| 75 | Female | 33.6 | Left | Hypertension | Flank laparotomy | Unknown | Pain | 25 | 12 × 12 | 115 | 4 | None |
| 69 | Male | 23.1 | Left | None | Trocar site hernia | Laparoscopic-assisted inguinal hernia repair | Pain | 20 | 9 × 6 | 182 | 2 | None |