Abstract:

Repair of the recurrent groin hernia remains one of the more perplexing problems encountered by the general surgeon. Surgical results have shown little improvement in the more than 100 years of modern hernia surgery. Despite the utilization of a multitude of complex and technically demanding operative procedures, such varied surgical techniques as wide dissection, detailed anatomic repair, multi-layered repair, relaxing incisions, tissue flaps, suture of living tissue, weaving of a reinforcing lattice of suture or tissue, transposition of cord, and orchiectomy, have engendered little more than increased disability and complications.

Authors:

Alan W. Robbins, M.D., F.A.C.S. ; Ira M. Rutkow, M.D., M.P.H., Dr.P.H., F.A.C.S. - The Hernia Center, Freehold, N.J.

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