Open AccessAn experience with mesh versus darn repair in inguinal hernias
Author(s) -
Memon Ga,
Shah Ska,
_ 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.