[A method of surgical treatment of "difficult" inguinal hernias]

A comparison has been made between the results of 167 hernioplasties performed by generally accepted methods (those by Martynov, Girards, Bassini, Sholdis, Postemsky) and by the method of deep inguinal hernioplasty developed in the clinic for "difficult" hernias. The proposed method eliminates the main shortcoming of M.I. Kukudzhanov's method--tension of the sutured tissues. After hernioplasty of "difficult" hernias (106 operations) recurrences made up 1.9%.