Controversy exists on the merits of the various approaches to inguinal repair. Evolution of
the classic open repair has culminated in the Shouldice repair. Challenges from newcomers …

Authors with wide experience report that the Shouldice technique for repair of inguinal
hernia is very effective. The technique has not gained widespread acceptance or notoriety …

A randomized controlled trial was conducted on 142 adult male and female patients for
primary inguinal hernias by the Shouldice or the Bassini-Kirschner surgical technique …

Over a century has passed since the landmark series of inguinal hernia repairs carried out
by Eduardo Bassini1. Had his early publications been in the English language much of the …

The Shouldice Repair Page 1 52 The Shouldice Repair Robert Bendavid Introduction The
Shouldice repair is a pure tissue repair designed to correct direct and indirect inguinal hernias …

The Problem of the Recurrent Inguinal Hernia Page 1 Symposium on Personal Preferences in
Surgery The Problem of the Recurrent Inguinal Hernia Richard N. Myers, MD,* and Edwin W …

Inguinal hernia repair has been evolving for the past 130 years and the pace of evolution
accelerated in the last decade with the introduction of the tension-free repair, the …

During the past 13 years, the Shouldice method for hernia repair has been used in a series
of 550 consecutive herniorrhaphies with a known recurrence rate of 0.2 percent. The basic …

The technique of the Shouldice hernioplasty for primary and recurrent inguinal hernia is
described on the basis of more than 3 500 procedures at the Surgical University Clinic of …

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 …