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Over the last 25 years ambulatory surgery rates have steadily increased in many countries, and inguinal hernia repair is a common accepted outpatient procedure.

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  1. Surgical Department, Università Insubria, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, via Faravelli 16, 20149, Milano, Italy

    Giampiero Campanelli & Marta Cavalli

  2. Surgical Department, Università Insibria, Ospedale di Circolo di Varese, Viale Borri 57, 21100, Varese, Italy

    Valentina Bertocchi

  3. Surgical Department, University of Pharmacy and Medicine of Craiova, Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, via Faravelli 16, 20149, Milano, Italy

    Cristina Sfeclan

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Campanelli, G., Cavalli, M., Bertocchi, V., Sfeclan, C. (2013). Logistics. In: Kingsnorth, A., LeBlanc, K. (eds) Management of Abdominal Hernias. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-877-3_4

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