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Article History

Received: 17 December 2019

Accepted: 19 February 2020

First Online: 9 March 2020

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: No funding was required for the present manuscript. Mr. Sandø has no conflicts to report. Dr. Rosen reports personal fees from The Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative and Ariste Medical, other from Intuitive, Miromatrix, and Pacira, during the conduct of the study; Dr. Heniford reports grants and personal fees from Allergan, Inc. and WL Gore and Associates, during the conduct of the study. Dr. Heniford has a patent ‘System, methods, and computer program products for determining an optimum hernia repair procedure’ licensed to B. Todd. Heniford; Dr. Bisgaard reports support from Bard BD Nordic, Medtronic Denmark A/S, Robot Intuitive, B Braun Denmark, Baxter Denmark, Cook Medical Denmark, Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, Stryker Denmark, and Gore International, during the conduct of the study.

: Approval from the institutional review board was not required for this study.

: This article is a systematic review and only contains data already available in the literature. It does not directly involve human or animal participation.

: For this review, informed consent was not necessary.