Surgery is always recommended for inguinal hernias in children. Laparoscopic hernia repair usually is not done on children. But a laparoscope may be used during open hernia repairs in children to ...

This is called an umbilical hernia. It may be present at birth or appear in the first few days of life. Umbilical hernias are commoner in Afro Caribbean races or in children with poor muscle tone ...

inguinal hernias, ventral hernias, incisional hernias, recurrent hernias, mesh problems, and chronic groin pain. Our multidisciplinary team of hernia specialists uses a wide variety of surgical ...

About 5% of primary inguinal hernia repairs are undertaken as emergencies. Abdominal hernias usually do not recur in children. They do reappear, however, in about 10 percent of adults. Surgery is ...

About 25% of males and 2% of females develop inguinal hernias; this is the most common hernia in males and females ... with only a 2-10% incidence in children older than 1 year.