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Table 2 Characteristics of future recurrent and control lesions used for the video reviews

From: Insufficiency of prosthetic posterolateral overlap related to recurrence after laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernioplasty, as assessed by video review

 

Future recurrent

(n = 13)

Control

(n = 28)

p-value

Gender, male:female

13:0

28:0

 

Age (years)

63.8 ± 11.8

62.5 ± 15.0

0.847*

Operation time (min)

117 (65–158)

122 (60–324)

0.294†

Laterality, Lt.: Rt.

5:8

10:18

1.000

JHS type, I: II

7:6

16:12

1.000

JHS type, Primary: Recurrence

10:3

26:2

0.304

Surgeon’s experience (cases)

12.5 (1–72)

10.0 (1–73)

0.897†

  1. *Student’s t-test, †Mann-Whitney U Test, Fisher’s exact test
  2. JHS Japan Hernia Society.
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