… The only drawback to the Shouldice technique is that it must be done integrally.Many …
reported by Shouldice in 1953.Now that elderly patients undergo hernia repair more frequently, the …

… Background: The aim of the present randomized trial was to compare the Shouldice
procedure and the Lichtenstein hernia repair with respect to recurrence rate, technical dif®culty, …

… hernia repairs (ie, Bassini, McVay, Shouldice, and … hernia repairs performed in 680 patients
using this technique. Of these, there were 716 primary inguinal hernia repairs and 92 repairs …

… is a valuable alternative for a patient suffering from primary inguinal hernia. On the other
hand we are disposing of an approved technique for hernia repair: the Shouldice technique, …

… During the same period open nonmesh techniques, including the Shouldice repair, have
gradually become less popular. Their share of the total number of operations fell from 75% to 18…

… the Shouldice Hospital — a specialty hospital for hernia surgery — had a lower rate of inguinal
hernia … In randomized trials of hernia repair, the Shouldice technique of hernia repair was …

… hernia surgery until introduction of artificial materials were in fact variants of Bassini concept.
The popularization of the Bassini technique … 3% hernia recurrence rate in Shouldice Hernia …

… the effectiveness of hernia surgery, that is, the outcome of techniques used in routine practice
… the Shouldice technique, 6 the Lichtenstein tension-free technique, 2 or the plug method. …

… However, the introduction of mesh techniques has led to a marked reduction in … hernia
surgery in which evidence-based consensus is still lacking. For the important question of method …

… Shouldice technique required considerable time to learn and difculties were sometimes met
when trying to accomplish repair … of Lichtenstein versus Shouldice hernia repair in general …