The international surgical journal with global reach

This is the Scientific Surgery Archive, which contains all randomized clinical trials in surgery that have been identified by searching the top 50 English language medical journal issues since January 1998. Compiled by Jonothan J. Earnshaw, former Editor-in-Chief, BJS

Systematic review and meta-analysis of prophylactic mesh during primary stoma formation to prevent parastomal hernia. Dis Colon Rectum 2017; 60: 107-115.

Published: 17th May 2017

Authors: Chapman SJ, Wood B, Drake TM, Young N, Jayne D

Conclusion

There were seven randomized trial that included 432 patients. Use of mesh reduced the rate of clinically apparent parastomal hernia from 32.4 to 10.8 per cent (risk ratio 0.34, 95 per cent confidence interval 0.18 to 0.65, P=0.001) without increasing the risk of complications.

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