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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Jacek Szopinski, Stanislaw Dabrowiecki, Stanislaw Pierscinski, Marek Jackowski, Maciej Jaworski, Zbigniew Szuflet
BACKGROUND: The Shouldice method and other tissue-based techniques are still acknowledged to be acceptable for primary inguinal hernia repair according to the European Hernia Society guidelines. Desarda's technique, presented in 2001, is an original hernia repair method using an undetached strip of external oblique aponeurosis. This randomized trial compared outcomes after hernia repair with Desarda (D) and mesh-based Lichtenstein (L) techniques. METHODS: A total of 208 male patients were randomly assigned to the D or L group (105 vs...
May 2012: World Journal of Surgery
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