[Proposal for the use of preoperative pneumoperitoneum in the treatment of large bilateral inguinal-scrotal hernias].
The authors bring again their therapeutic behavior effected with the technique of the pneumoperitoneum preoperative for the resolution or a case of bilateral inguinal hernia. Having used a catheter of Tenckoff with external link to Y, in use beside the nephrologist, for peritoneal dialysis and has stayed positioned for percutaneous way into the peritoneal cavity. Has stayed insufflated increasing quantity of air in abdomen from 100 cc after the first day of treatment, to 1500 cc after the 15th day, to allow a sufficient increase of the ability or the peritoneal cavity and allow the reduction of the intestinal loops in abdomen. The patient has stayed subjected to F.K. Respiratory T. and constant control of the EGA for permitting the patient to have a hernioplasty with median navel-pubic access and positioning of preperitoneal prosthesis according to Stoppa in the best possible conditions.
Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale di Rivoli, Torino.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis; D011028:Pneumoperitoneum, Artificial; D011095:Polyethylenes; D011126:Polypropylenes; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013526:Surgical Mesh
C016674:Plastipore; D011095:Polyethylenes; D011126:Polypropylenes