Balancing mesh-related complications and benefits in primary ventral and incisional hernia surgery. A meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis

• Manuel López-Cano ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mlpezcano@gmail.com

  Affiliation Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit, Department of General Surgery, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3337-0756

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• Lidia A. Martin-Dominguez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit, Department of General Surgery, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• José Antonio Pereira,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Parc de Salut Mar, Experimental and Health Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

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• Manuel Armengol-Carrasco,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit, Department of General Surgery, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Josep M. García-Alamino

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation DPhil Programme in Evidence-Based Healthcare, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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