• Li-Shuai Xu, Qian Li, Ye Wang, Jia-Wei Wang, Song Wang, Cheng-Wei Wu, Ting-Ting Cao, Ya-Bin Xia, Xiao-Xu Huang, and Li Xu.
• Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, The First Affiliated Yijishan Hospital of Wannan Medical College, Wuhu, China.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2023 Aug 4; 102 (31): e34554e34554.

AbstractAfter 30 years of development, laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair (LIHR) has become the main method for treating adult inguinal hernia. LIHR is more standardized, the approach of single-port laparoscopic hernioplasty, the advantages of robotic inguinal hernioplasty, the application of new patches and the selection of surgical methods for different populations have become the focus and difficulty of current research. This article summarized the research progress of LIHR in recent years. Different keywords and phrases including inguinal hernia, LIHR, transabdominal laparoscopic preperitoneal hernia repair, and total extraperitoneal hernia repair were used to search the PubMed, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Web of Science databases for related original and review articles that serve the aim of this article well, which was to perform a nonsystematic review of the development, progress, and current status of LIHR.Copyright © 2023 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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