[Treatment experience with the author's method for inguinal hernias difficult to eliminate]

The strength of tissues sutured by different methods of plasty of the inguinal canal walls, the value of load on the sutured tissues as well as the efficacy of the plasty in direct hernias, oblique hernias with straightened canal and recurrent inguinal hernias were studied in 202 patients. The author's method for the strengthening of the posterior wall of the inguinal canal and the area of the deep ring by means of the tenia of aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle enables the tissue to be sutured firmly with minimum load. Good remote results were obtained in 90% of cases.