[Bilaterally strangulated bilateral obturator hernia. Plastic surgery, using the round ligaments]

An unusual case of bilateral obturaptor hernia with double ileal strangulation is reported. An account is given of obturator hernia, its pathogenesis, and surgical management. Of the various possibilities that exist in this respect, the simplest and most resolutive, it is submitted, is that in which the ligamentum teres uteri is employed to close the hernial porta.