The presence of CPSP was confirmed in 239 (13.6%) during the DN4-guided physical examination at 4 months, excluding 2 patients whose pain was caused by another disease; 13.9% of those undergoing mesh repairs (236/1693 patients) developed CPSP versus 4.4% (3/68 patients) of those repaired without mesh, although the difference did not reach statistical significance ( P = 0.053).
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Chronic pain after groin hernia repair: pain characteristics and impact on quality of life.
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Although statistical conditions for the analysis were met [ 33 ], we would like to see data for a larger number of non-mesh cases before arguing strong conclusions given that the CPSP rates between the two groups were quite different (4.4% vs 13.9%) and approached significance.