[Complications in hernia surgery]

Like Hernia Surgery, itself, its complications must be regularly reviewed for permanent teaching. The necessity of this information is linked to the daily frequency of hernia cures. Complications are rather infrequent in classical repairs, where difficulties and pitfalls have been listed since a long time. Nevertheless their list is large and deserves to be recalled. Coelioscopic hernia surgery, recently appeared, revealed some complications which were unknown in classical surgery; its evaluation, to day in progress, should take account of these.