There are 2 surgical approaches in hernia repair surgery: the open and the laparoscopic one. An approach is called open, when the surgeon makes a single incision near the location of the hernia, dissects the surrounding tissues and repairs the hernia under direct vision.
In general, we call the largest areas of land on earth the continents of the earth.
The world's largest countries by LAND AREA are: Russia (16,377,742 km^2)China (9,326,410 km^2United States (9,161,966 km^2) Canada (9,093,507 km^2)Brazil (8,456,510 km^2Austra â¦ lia (7,617,930 km^2) India (2,987,000 km^2) Argentina (2,736,690 km^2) Kazakhstan (2,669,800 km^2) Sudan (2,505,813 km^2) http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/geo_are_lan-geography-area-land There is a big difference between TOTAL AREA and LAND AREA.