Occurrence and prevention of incisional hernia following laparoscopic colorectal surgery

Table 1 Incidence and risk factors of incisional hernia after laparoscopic colorectal surgery

Ref.	Country	Incidence of IH (%)	Clinical risk factors
Kobayashi et al[2]	Japan	10	Female gender, obesity, and SSI
Fan et al[8]	China	3.2	Incision outside the midline, advanced age, female sex, obesity, SSI, hypoalbuminemia, and comorbid chronic cough
Laurent et al[9]	France	13.0	Open surgery
Jensen et al[10]	Denmark	5.2	Open surgery
Vignali et al[11]	Italy	17.3	Open surgery
Bartels et al[12]	Holland	10.1	Open surgery
Yamamoto et al[13]	Japan	8.5	Visceral fat area
Kuhry et al[14]	Multicenter	7.9	No
Mishra et al[15]	United Kingdom	15.9	Stoma closure site
Patankar et al[16]	United States	1.7	No
Singh et al[17]	Canada	7.8	Midline extraction site
Braga et al[18]	Italy	4.7	No
Winslow et al[19]	United States	24.3	No
Taylor et al[20]	United Kingdom	8.6	Conversion from laparoscopic to open surgery
Duepree et al[21]	United States	2.3	No
Petersson et al[22]	Multicenter	17.0	No

IH: Incisional hernia; SSI: Surgical site infection.