Patients who undergo mesh surgery for an abdominal hernia are less likely to experience a hernia recurrence than those who have surgery using sutures only, a review of nine studies finds. Both operations are common among the more than 350,000 abdominal hernia repairs done annually in the United States, but few large studies have compared the techniques.
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