Treatment of inguinal hernia
INDIRECT HERNIA
- Always surgery
IN INFANTS:
- Herniotomy
IN ADULTS:
- Herniotomy[excision of hernial sac]+Herniorrhaphy/ Hernioplasty[strengthening of the posterior wall of inguinal canal either by repair or mesh]
REPAIR MAY BE:
- PURE TISSUE REPAIR
- Shouldice,Mac Vay,Modified bassini
PROSTHETIC REPAIR
- Lichtenstein,Rives,Gilbert,Stopa,TEP,TAPP
Anterior Repair
- Through anterior inguinal approach
- Bassinis, Shouldice,Mac Vay, Lichtenstein, Rives peritoneal repair
Posterior Repair
- Through Supra Inguinal Pre peritoneal Approach
- Nyhus repair, Stoppas, TEP, TAPP, Kugel’s Repair
HERNIOTOMY
- Indication:
- Congenital hydrocele
- Anesthesia-spinal or GA
- After cleaning and draping, skin is incised-1.25 cm above and parellel to the medial 2/3 of inguinal ligament.
- Sup fascia(camper’s and scarpa’s fascia)are incised.
- Ext oblique aponeurosis is incised.
- Visualize the inguinal ligament.
- Illio inguinal nerve is safeguarded.
- Cremasteric muscle is opened, cord structures are dissected.
- Sac which is ant and lat to the cord is identified and its pearly white in colour.
- Dissection usually starts from the fundus and extented towards the neck which is identified by extra peritoneal fat
- Finger is passed to release any adhesions
- Surgery can be done using laparoscopy
- Sac is twisted and transfixed using absorbable suture and is excised distally
- Non-absorbable mesh is used for hernia surgery.
- During repair of indirect inguinal hernia, while releasing the constriction at the deep inguinal ring, the surgeon takes care not to damage Inferior epigastric arterySpermatic cord
Exam Question
- During surgical repair of hernia, the sac of a strangulated inguinal hernia should be opened at Fundus
- Congenital hydrocele is treated by herniotomy
- Hernia in children is treated with herniotomy
- Absorbable mesh should not be used for surgery
- Surgery can be done using laparoscopy
- A pt. operated for direct inguinal hernia developed anethesia at the root of the penis and adjacent part of the scrotum the nerve likely to be injured is Ilioinguinal nerve
- During repair of indirect inguinal hernia, while releasing the constriction at the deep inguinal ring, the surgeon takes care not to damage Inferior epigastric arterySpermatic cord
- Most important step in the repair of an indirect inguinal hernia is Narrowing of the internal ring
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