Fewer complications, lower mortality with minimally invasive hernia repair

Posted on: 20-Nov-2017

Minimally invasive surgical techniques are now used in nearly 80% of operations for paraesophageal hernia repair (PEH) and are associated with many outcome improvements, in comparison with open surgery, according to a retrospective study of data from nearly 100,000 cases

Source: MD Edge

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