PRESERVED FASCIA IN HERNIA REPAIR

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During the last decade there have been many innovations in the operations for the various types of hernia, as regards both the technic of the operations themselves and the materials used in the repair. My object in this paper is to discuss briefly, in general, the use of fascia strips, with especial reference to the preserved material, and then to discuss specifically the application of the method to one of the most difficult problems in hernia, namely, large postoperative hernias. Gallie and LeMesurier,1 in recent years, have extensively employed autogenous fascia lata in the repair of hernial defects. They have largely used strips of fascia lata, either as an ordinary suture material to approximate the edges of hernial defects, or, in gaps, the edges of which cannot be approximated, as a basketweave network to close the defects. They have shown experimentally that such transplants persist as living tissues and

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