الفهرس 
Anatomy of inguinal regionOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Fifteen percent to 20% of hernia operations are done for recurrent hernias. It is cost-effective to keep recurrence rates as low as possible. Acceptably low rates can be achieved by several different types of hernia repairs. Consequently, the recurrence rate
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should be only one of the factors that are used to judge hernia repairs. Other factors include technical difficulty, complications, early and late postoperative pain and disability, medical costs, and societal costs.
So the aim of this work was to evaluate and compare Shouldice with darning and Bassini with mesh techniques in inguinal hernia repair.
We conducted a prospective, randomized study of 50 consecutive patients admitted to the department of General Surgery in Menofiya University Hospitals and Nasser Institute Hospital. All patients were suffering from inguinal hernia, 34 patients had indirect inguinal hernia and 16 patients had direct hernia. 25 patients were treated by Shouldice repair with darning (The first group) and 25 patients were treated by Bassini repair with mesh (the second group). Follow up had continued for one year postoperatively.
Our study revealed the following:
The indirect inguinal hernia (68%) was more common than the direct inguinal hernia (32%).