At operation a large, poorly limited direct inguinal hernia was present. The ilioinguinal nerve was found to be bound down to the medial surface of the anterosuperior spine by the aponeurosis of ...

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in large direct hernias admitting three or more fingers, in other varieties of massive inguinal hernias with thinned-out tissues that have little plastic power for any safe reconstruction and in ...