NEW methods for the cure of inguinal hernia have appeared in an interminable stream since
the advent of modern surgery. Few of these, however, have proved to be significant or …

A simple classification of inguinal hernias is presented which can be valuable to surgeons
as a (1) blueprint for dissecting the canal,(2) means for choosing the most appropriate …

The modern operation for the cure of inguinal hernia is not as satisfactory as. we have grown
accustomed to believe. Supportive evidence for this statement may be found in the high …

AMOS D. GARNER, MD DAYTON, OHIO 0 NE of the probIems most frequentIy encountered
by the genera1 surgeon, now as in years past, is that of how to treat a patient with an …

There is no lack of recent literature on the subject of inguinal hernia, and no lack of variety in
the operations suggested for its relief. All manner of technical procedures have been …

The problem of inguinal hernia has resolved itself into the management of the direct variety.
This statement is based on the fact that all surgeons agree that in indirect or oblique hernia …

A previously described technique for the repair of inguinal hernias is briefly reviewed. A
series of 621 hernias were repaired by this technique. Five hundred and eighty-two (93.7%) …

Current Problems in Surgery last presented a monograph on inguinal hernia, by Chester B.
McVay, Raymond C. Read, and Mark M. Ravitch, in 1967.'Twenty-four years later, we again …

The year 1937 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Bassini's first contribution before the ItaIian
SurgicaI Society, and the treatment of hernia as we know it today can properIy be said to …

A typic operation for the radical cure of oblique inguinal hernia is one that places all the
structures involved in the same relationship to one another as they are present in a normal …