title: Prosthetic repair of an incarcerated groin hernia with small intestinal resection.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  No consensus has been reached on the use of prostheses in a potentially infected operating field. In this study, we evaluated the validity of a mesh prosthesis for the repair of incarcerated groin hernias with intestinal resection.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-seven patients underwent operations for correction of incarcerated groin hernias with small intestinal resection at our hospital between January 2000 and March 2010. The patients were divided into two groups: those who underwent repair with a prosthetic mesh and those who underwent primary hernia repair. Patients with intestinal perforations, abscess formations, panperitonitis, and those who required colon resections were excluded. The length of the operation, blood loss, and incidences of surgical site infection, postoperative ileus, and recurrence were evaluated in each group.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 27 patients studied, 10 (37%) underwent tension-free repair with a mesh, and 17 (63%) underwent primary hernia repair. Although the patients who underwent primary hernia repair were significantly older than the patients who underwent mesh repair (P = 0.015), no statistically significant differences in morbidity, including surgical site infection, or mortality, were identified.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Strangulated inguinal hernias cannot be considered a contraindication to the use of a prosthetic mesh even in cases requiring small-intestinal resection.
authors: Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8603, Japan. junji0821@nms.ac.jp
authors: Junji
authors: J
authors: Ueda
authors: Tsutomu
authors: T
authors: Nomura
authors: Junpei
authors: J
authors: Sasaki
authors: Kengo
authors: K
authors: Shigehara
authors: Kazuya
authors: K
authors: Yamahatsu
authors: Aya
authors: A
authors: Tani
authors: Yoshinobu
authors: Y
authors: Shioda
authors: Kiyonori
authors: K
authors: Furukawa
authors: Eiji
authors: E
authors: Uchida
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D005260:Female; D006119:Groin / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D059685:Herniorrhaphy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D013997:Time Factors