An experience with mesh versus darn repair in inguinal hernias | Zendy

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An experience with mesh versus darn repair in inguinal hernias

Author(s) -

Gulshan Ali Memon,

Syed Kashif Ali Shah,

Habib-ur -Rehman

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

pakistan journal of medical sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1682-024X

pISSN - 1681-715X

DOI - 10.12669/pjms.333.13257

Subject(s) - medicine , inguinal hernia , surgery , hernia , cohort , randomized controlled trial , fibrous joint , general surgery

The inguinal hernia accounts for 50 percent in old age males. A Lichtenstein type of operation has now become the method of choice in most developed countries but in the developing world traditional simple suture repair is still in common practice in resource limited hospitals due to the scarcity and expensive nature of the commercial prosthetic mesh. Our objective was to compare the rates of complications in Lichtenstein repair to tension free Darn repair.

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