[Treatment of an inguinal hernia by the midline preperitoneal approach using a dacron patch]

The authors report a series of 128 inguinal hernias operated by a mid line extra peritoneal incision with using Dacron Tulle material, and with a 3 years minimal follow up. The spetical risk in this series is about 0.78 percent. Not any prothesis had be removed. Relapse level was about 3.9 percent at 3 years. More of them, occur during the first year at our experience starting period. We can improve this number into less than 1 percent with experimented surgeons. The mid line way in the case of multirelapsing hernias allows an easier cleaving of the subparietal spaces, and putting in place prothesis largely over-stepping weakness zone.