[A case of external supravesical hernia--repair with laparoscopic surgery]

We report a case of external supravesical hernia. A 39-year-old Japanese male with history of bilateral herniorrhaphy visited our hospital with complaint of uncomfortable thumb-tip-sized subcutaneous mass cephalad and lateral to the pubic bone. Hernia port was observed laparoscopically in the right supravesical fossa, establishing the diagnosis of right external supravesical hernia. The patient received laparoscopic herniorrhaphy with fixing of polypropylene mesh on the preperitoneal layer and he was discharged on the third postoperative day. This patient seems the first case of external supravesical hernia ever receiving herniorraphy based on laparoscopic findings from inside the abdominal cavity.