В. F. Baykov. About some difficulties in repairing chronic hernias. Russian Surgical Archives, 1903, Vol. 1

Abstract

While operating on a strangulated scrotal hernia 20 years ago, the author ran into a whole series of difficulties. First of all, because of the infringement in the upper part of the hernial sac, the intestine could not be removed from the scrotum, which required cutting it along the anterior surface. The contents of the hernia turned out to be about an arshin of the small intestine with thickened walls and a significantly thickened (up to 1 / 2 vershok) mesentery, obviously due to constant venous stasis. The infringement did not affect the small intestine. Together with the ileum in the hernia, the coecum with the appendix and the ascending part of the large intestine were found.

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