Laparoscopic surgery for chronic groin pain in athletes is more effective than nonoperative treatment: a randomized clinical trial with magnetic resonance imaging of 60 patients with sportsman's hernia (athletic pubalgia).

Background: Chronic groin pain in athletes presents often a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Sportsman's hernia (also called "athletic pubalgia") is a deficiency of the posterior wall of the inguinal canal, which is often repaired by laparoscopic mesh placement. Endoscopic mesh repair may offer a faster recovery for athletes with sportsman's hernia than nonoperative therapy.

Successful treatment of osteitis pubis by using totally extraperitoneal endoscopic technique.

Osteitis pubis is characterized by pain, inflammation, and sclerosis in the pubic symphysis. It is often a self-limiting disease in athletes, but persistent pain may occasionally need surgery. Video-assisted placement of extraperitoneal retropubic synthetic mesh to support the damaged area may hasten the healing of this injury.

Totally extraperitoneal endoscopic (TEP) treatment of sportsman's hernia.

Sportsman's hernia is a term used to describe a weakness or disruption of is a term used to describe the musculotendinous part of the posterior inguinal wall, which causes persistent groin pain in athletes. A video-assisted placement of extraperitoneal synthetic mesh to support the damaged area may heal this injury. Forty-one male athletes at an elite level (mean age 27 +/- 7.

Laparoscopic versus open preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair: a prospective randomised trial.

Background And Aims: Before choosing between open and laparoscopic preperitoneal tension-free repair, a study comparing their safety and short-term outcome was needed. No randomised studies comparing the two hernia repair techniques have hitherto been published.

Material And Methods: A prospective randomised study was carried out comparing laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal mesh herniorrhaphy (n = 24) to open preperitoneal mesh herniorrhaphy (n = 25).