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Article History

Received: 20 June 2023

Accepted: 14 August 2023

First Online: 26 August 2023

Declarations

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: FK personal fees from BD Heidelberg outside the submitted work. All other authors declare that he/she has no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the study reported in this article.

: 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 Nr 2016–00123, 287/2017 B02).

: This article does not contain any study with animals performed by any of the authors.

: All patients with routine hernia surgery documented in the Herniamed-Registry have signed an informed consent declaration agreeing to participate.