BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Conversion to open surgery is an important problem, especially during the learning curve of laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal (TEP) inguinal hernia repair. METHODS Here, we discuss conversion to the Stoppa procedure during laparoscopic TEP inguinal hernia repair. Outcomes of patients who underwent conversion to an open approach during laparoscopic TEP inguinal her...

In recent years, general surgeons who perform inguinal hernia repair have paid attention to successful reduction in the recurrence rate. The Lichtenstein technique is widely used because it is easy to learn and is associated with a low rate of complication and recurrences. Today, the new objective in primary hernia surgery should be to reduce complications such as chronic pain. Chronic pain aft...

Through the case of a particular organization devoted to technological research and development, this paper investigates how values of the ‘new’ operate in what Appadurai (1986) has characterized as the social life of objects. Drawing on previous scholarship in anthropology and science and technology studies, I adopt the trope of the ‘affiliative object’ to describe the relational dynamics of a...

INTRODUCTION Occurrence of giant inguinal hernias is not frequent because of growing medical awareness in the community as well as progress in surgical treatment in this field. AIM To evaluate the effectiveness of repairs using the Lichtenstein technique in scheduled treatment of giant inguinal hernias. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2006 and 2010 in the Department of Surgery with the Subdepa...

Ventral hernias remain the most common surgical pathology, which occurs in 3-8% of population or 510-570 million people. The "gold standard" treatment ventral today remains use synthetic materials, and main method their is nontensioning prosthetic hernioplasty according to I.L. Lichtenstein, implemented 70-90% patients with inguinal hernias. properties endoprostheses, physical mechanical should...

this case is a rare aspect of left inguinal hernia. the patient was a 60-years old man with left scrotal mass since childhood. in the operating room, the hernia sac was opened which included cecum and appendix that is called left amyand`s hernia. the patient underwent herniorrhaphy with lichtenstein repair.