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Identifier: abdominalherniai00degauoft (find matches)
Title: Abdominal hernia : its diagnosis and treatment
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: De Garmo, W. B. (William Burton), 1849-
Subjects: Hernia
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Sac tied by purse-string suture. the Bassini method, except that there is no cord to provide for.The closure can be completed, as it is in most cases, in thefemale. In the 7 cases where I have placetl the testicle in this posi-tion, the patients have, in every instance, experienced the mostcomplete comfort. In one doubtful case on the left side, Ifound that the testicle would come well outside of abdominalwall, hut not fully into the scrotum, and I made the mis-take of leaving it in this position instead of placing it underthe muscles as on the other side. It has since been a .sourceof more or less discomfort to the patient. In young chil-dren, the subsequent and further descent of the testicle can COMPLICATIONS IN SURGICAL CURE. 249 Intemanoblique!and trans- fV e r s a I i s j
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Lifting up internal oblique and transversalis muscles, to slip testicle into preformed pocketin front of peritoueum. 250 ABDOMINAL HERNIA. be counted on, but not so in tlie adult. A photograph of thefirst case that I operated upon by this method, two years after-wards, is shown in fig. 126. This operation was done tenyears since, and the rehef and satisfaction of the patient hasbeen most gratifying. This is equally true with every patientupon whom the method has been used. Fig. 134.

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