EVALUATION OF POSTOPERATIVE CHRONIC NEUROPATHIC PAIN IN PATIENTS WITH LICHTENSTEIN HERNIA REPAIR AND LAPAROSCOPIC HERNIA REPAIR

MEHMET FATİH EROL, MUHAMMED DOĞANGÜN, BERKAY DEMİR, SİNAN ARICI, FÜSUN GÖZEN

The European Research Journal - 2025;11(5):878-884

Department of General Surgery, Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, Bursa, Türkiye

 

Objectives: The high incidence of inguinal hernia over the globe makes hernia repair the most common procedure in general surgery, and 10-15% of all surgeries are composed of hernia repair. In this study, we tried to elucidate the effect of risk factors of laparoscopic techniques on chronic neuropathic pain formation in the postoperative period in patients who underwent Lichtenstein hernia repair and laparoscopic hernia repair