Emergent Laparoscopic Repair of a Spigelian Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Summary of the literature review of patients undergoing laparoscopic repair in an emergent setting.

Study	No. of pts	Followup (months)	Complications	Mesh fixation method	Time to discharge (days)
Leff et al. [1]	1	4	0	Staples/sutures	2
Amendolara [4]	1	3	0	—	1
Habib and Elhadad [5]	1	12	0	Staples	2
Saber et al. [6]	2	36	0	Sutures/tacks	5, 3
Lopez-Tomassetti Fernandez et al. [7]	1	10 months	0	Tacks	3
Novell et al. [8]	1	—	0	Staples	—
Yau et al. [9]	1	—	—	Staples	4
Subramanya et al. [10]	1	6	0	Tacks	2

—: not reported.