What are the advantages of laparoscopic hernia surgery?

1. Laparoscopic surgery is more minimally invasive: the traditional surgical incision is about 1-2cm. Although there are two to three incisions in laparoscopic surgery, the largest hole is only 5mm. After healing, the scar is basically invisible, and the operation does not require dissection of the groin. Tube, less structural damage to the tissue, so less damage under the incision. Moreover, the size of the incision of the laparoscope is not limited by physical fitness such as obesity.

2. Laparoscopy can detect lesions on the contralateral side: many unilateral hernias are actually bilateral, but before laparoscopic surgery, some children had one side of the operation, and after a while another hernia appeared on the other side, and a second procedure was needed. second surgery. After laparoscopic surgery, it was found that many children with unilateral hernias are actually bilateral, and the other side was just because the gap was small and the intestines did not fall out. You can clearly check both sides, and if you find that there is also on the opposite side, you only need to add a 2mm pinhole to complete the bilateral surgery.

3. The effect of laparoscopic surgery is more reliable: the key point of hernia surgery is to ligate as high as possible the hernia sac. Because of the operation in the abdominal cavity, laparoscopic surgery can clearly expose the inguinal ring (that is, the top of the hernia sac), and It is operated under a magnified field of view, and the effect of the ligation can be clearly checked after the ligation, so the effect of the operation is more accurate.

4. Laparoscopic surgery is safer: Laparoscopic surgery has less anatomical damage and is a direct-sighted surgery under a magnified field of view, so the vas deferens and spermatic vessels can be clearly exposed, and only a blunt sled is needed during surgery. The needle slides, so there is almost no side damage, so the postoperative scrotal hematoma, edema and other problems of traditional surgery will not be encountered in laparoscopic surgery. And the surgery takes less time, only about 5 minutes for a skilled doctor.

Of course, compared with traditional surgery, laparoscopic surgery also has some disadvantages. For example, laparoscopic surgery theoretically increases the risk of damaging the bowel and blood vessels in the abdominal cavity, although this is a rare probability event. In addition, laparoscopic surgery requires The establishment of pneumoperitoneum requires higher anesthesia. For younger children, the operation is also limited by the abdominal space, and the cost is higher than traditional surgery. But in general, the advantages of laparoscopic surgery are still very obvious, so not only doctors accept it, but parents also welcome it.