Use of barbed suture for peritoneal closure in transabdominal preperitoneal hernia repair

Table 1 Number of patients for each type of herniorrhaphy and mean operative time of residents and consultants

	Unilateral					Bilateral	Total	Mean operative time (min)
		Adhesion1	SILS	Invagination2	Recurrence
Residents	7	-	-	-	1	3	11	158
Consultants	4	1	1	1	1	-	8	104
Total	11	1	1	1	2	3	19	135

¹Post status of appendectomy;

²Invagination of sigmoid colon. SILS: Single Incision laparoscopic surgery.