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Anterior Open Repair of Inguinal Hernia in Adults

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The last edition of this chapter started out with the question “operation or truss?” The retention and compression of reducible hernias by truss or corsage is at least 4,000 years and to this day remains quite widespread. Notwithstanding their long history, trusses remain an unsafe therapy; they are cumbersome and without any chance of healing. The number of prescriptions for trusses remains amazingly high considering advances in surgery and anesthesia in the last century. There is neither an explanation nor justification for a truss, the threat of a surgical solution blown out of all proportions.

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Conze, J. (2013). Anterior Open Repair of Inguinal Hernia in Adults. In: Kingsnorth, A., LeBlanc, K. (eds) Management of Abdominal Hernias. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-877-3_14

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