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Female Neonatal Inguinal Hernia Repair Dr. Tamer Ashraf Wafa
With Dr. Tamer Ashraf Wafa
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Inguinal Hernia 28 items
Chapter 1 of 1 · Surgical Management
Hernia repair technique
Open Inguinal Hernia Repair in Female Neonate
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What the experts said
Incision is placed in the lower abdominal crease for female neonatal inguinal hernia repair.
Subcutaneous tissue and Scarpa's fascia are bluntly dissected in this approach.
Palpating the hernial sac helps in its location and grasping.
The sac and its coverings are bluntly dissected and exteriorized.
The coverings are peeled off the sac until the extraperitoneal fat is reached.
The sac is opened to check for a sliding fallopian tube in female inguinal hernia repair.
The round ligament is identified during female inguinal hernia dissection.
In this case, no fallopian tube was found in the hernial sac.
The sac is twisted and transfixed at the proper neck using 4-0 absorbable suture.
The external inguinal ring is closed using one or two absorbable stitches.
Scarpa's fascia is closed by inverted absorbable sutures.
The skin is closed by subcuticular sutures in this technique.
