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Köckerling, Ferdinand
Williams, Sarah H.
Steele, Catherine C.
Riediger, Hartwig
Badhwar, Amit
Adolf, Daniela
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Article History
Received: 29 April 2025
Accepted: 20 May 2025
First Online: 27 June 2025
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: F. Köckerling reports grants to fund Herniamed from Johnson&Johnson, Norderstedt; Karl Storz, Tuttlingen; MenkeMed, Munich; BD Karlsruhe; Medtronic, Meerbusch; Dahlhausen, Cologne; and PFM Medical, Cologne. S.H. Williams, C.C. Steele, and A. Badhwar are employees of BD. H. Riediger and D. Adolf declare that they have no competing interests.
: For this article no studies with human participants or animals were performed by any of the authors. All studies mentioned were in accordance with the ethical standards indicated in each case. Only cases of routine hernia surgery were documented in the Herniamed registry, and all patients have signed a special informed consent declaration agreeing to participate. The Herniamed registry has ethical approval (BASEC no. 2016-00.123, 287/2017 BO2). All patients with routine hernia surgery documented in the Herniamed registry have signed an informed consent declaration agreeing to participate.
