Pneumoperitoneum in Preparation for Correction of Giant Hernias

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Abstract
THE correction of giant hernias and eventrations has long offered a challenge to surgical skill and ingenuity. It has been aptly stated that many large hernias have lost the "right of domicile." Some of these cases, unfortunately, have been considered inoperable because of the feared complications of sudden change in intra-abdominal pressure and the technical difficulty encountered in the closure of the peritoneum and parietal layers after the return of the contents of the hernia sac to the abdominal cavity.We wish to report such a case that was successfully corrected surgically after the preliminary establishment of pneumoperitoneum. The degree . . .