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In a message dated 9/22/98 10:17:18 AM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Heitman asks, "will it work?" Otherwise, it certainly sounds better from the little I know. >> Art, Speaking precisely, I didn't mean to ask that. What I had meant to say was that I do not understand how the laparoscopic procedure would work in something that is going to be done just below the skin.. Restated from memory in another way: I don't know how a laproscopic approach would reduce the trauma since the surgery is to move and tack down a piece of fascia (right under the skin) to other fascia. The idea is to get the two to scar together eliminating the abnormal abdominal wall hole. Most laproscopic procedures are inter peritoneal (inside the body cavity). There these procedures reduce trauma immensely, eliminating the need to make wide abdominal wall wounds. Such wounds were necessary to visualize and reach the surgery. These traditional approaches involved a lot of muscle and fascia trauma. They also took weeks rather than days to recover . Regards, WHH