[Surgery of inguinal hernia in a clinical department]

The authors stress on the academic surgical departments the necessity of the development of both traditional and minimally invasive techniques of the groin hernia repair. They suggest to make patient selection based on the hernia type (Nyhus Classification) and patient's will and take account of an internal-anesthesiologic aspects. From four currently most often applied minimally invasive techniques they bring attention to the hernioplasty by exclusively extraperitoneal approach, till now seldom used by us.