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Article History

Received: 9 September 2025

Accepted: 30 October 2025

First Online: 19 November 2025

Declarations

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: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Oldenburg. Written informed consent was obtained from all patients and/or their legal representatives for publication of potentially identifiable data or images.

: For this work, no studies were performed on humans or animals by the authors. The data collection of this study is based on a positive ethics vote of the Ethics Committee of University Oldenburg, and the studies were performed based on the ethical guidelines specified therein. For images or other information in the manuscript that can be used to identify patients, written consent was obtained from the patients and/ or their legal representatives.

: Anna Hannebauer, Ahmed Al-Mawsheki and Maximilian Bockhorn declare that they have no conflicts of interest. The Department for General – and Visceral Surgery, University Hospital Oldenburg, has been a European Reference Centre for DaVinci Hernia Surgery (Intuitive) since 2024; Fadl Alfarawan is a proctor for Intuitive and the income from this activity goes in full to the Klinikum Oldenburg AöR. This research received no external funding. The APC was funded by the University of Oldenburg.