Erratum to: Surg Endosc DOI 10.1007/s00464-014-3703-7

In the title the word “inguial” is correctly spelled “inguinal”.

On the first page, in the Abstract, 8th line, “preperitonal” should be “preperitoneal”.

At the bottom of the left column, first page,

T. Mizota, N. Takemoto, H. Yamada, Y. Miyasaka

NTT East Sapporo Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

e-mail: nori-take@pop16.odn.ne.jp

should be changed to

T. Mizota · N. Takemoto · H. Yamada · Y. Miyasaka

NTT East Sapporo Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

e-mail: tmizota@huhp.hokudai.ac.jp

N. Takemoto

e-mail: nori-take@pop16.odn.ne.jp

On the second page, left column, 4th paragraph, first line, delete “to”.

On the fifth page, left column, first paragraph, 9th line, change “safely” to “safety”.

In Reference 8, change “Naoki M” to “Matsumura N”.