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She was diagnosed with a left indirect inguinal hernia and a separate inguino-labial lipoma superficial to the external oblique aponeurosis, which was not adherent to the inguinal canal, round ligament or canal of Nuck. The coexistence of the two lesions was incidental. The patient underwent combined laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal (TEP) hernia repair and TEP-guided transfascial lipoma excision. Histopathology verified a mature lipoma without atypia or features of liposarcoma. 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