Currently, laparoscopic incisional or ventral hernia repair is commonly used with the major advantage being the lower recurrence and all defects can be ...HOMEAboutAimsandScopeAbouttheJournalEditorialBoardPublishingCredentialsBestPracticeOpenAccessContactUsArchivesCurrentIssueArchivesMostReadEditorialPoliciesResearchandPublicationEthicsPeerReviewPolicyCopyrightPolicyDataArchivingPolicyDataSharingPolicyForContributorsForAuthorsForReviewerse-SubmissionTitleAuthorKeyword:::Volume:::Vol.24Vol.23Vol.22Vol.21Vol.20Vol.19Vol.18Vol.17Vol.16Vol.15Vol.14Vol.13Vol.12Vol.11Vol.10Vol.9Vol.8Vol.7Vol.6Vol.5Vol.4Vol.3Vol.2Vol.1:::Issue:::No.4No.3No.2No.1CurrentIssue  |  Archives  |  MostReadJournalofMinimallyInvasiveSurgery2018;21(1):5-12  https://doi.org/10.7602/jmis.2018.21.1.5IncisionalandVentralHerniaRepairYoun-BaikChoi1,andIn-SeobLee21DepartmentofSurgery,ChungHospital,Seoul,Korea,2DepartmentofSurgery,UlsanUniversityCollegeofMedicineandAsanMedicalCenter,Seoul,KoreaCorrespondenceto:Youn-BaikChoi,DepartmentofSurgery,Chung,Hospital,550Olympic-ro,Gangdong-gu,Seoul05391,Korea,Tel:+82-2-2202-3114,Fax:+82-2-474-9027,E-mail:[email protected]:April25,2017;Revised:November10,2017;Accepted:November14,2017;Publishedonline:March15,2018.©TheKoreanSocietyofEndoscopicandLaparoscopicSurgeons.ThisisanOpenAccessarticledistributedunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttributionNon-CommercialLicense(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)whichpermitsunrestrictednon-commercialuse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited.OtherSectionsAbstractINTRODUCTIONBODYTEXTCONCLUSIONReferencesAbstractIncisionalorventralherniaisaverycommonmultifactorialdiseasethatrequiressurgerytopreventcomplications,includingpain,discomfort,bowelobstruction,incarceration,andstrangulation.Toperformherniorrhaphy,itisessentialtounderstandthepathogenesisofhernia,theanatomyandphysiologyoftheabdominalwall,andsurgicaltechniques.Severalrepairmethodsareavailable,includingopensuturerepai