These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Obliterated processus vaginalis diagnosed by intraoperative laparoscopy is unlikely to develop into a clinical hernia.
    Author: Liu C, Chin T, Wei C.
    Journal: Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi (Taipei); 2000 Jun; 63(6):447-51. PubMed ID: 10925534.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to evaluate if a subsequent inguinal hernia would occur in the contralateral obliterated processus vaginalis shown by intraoperative laparoscopic examination. METHODS: From July, 1993 to February, 1994, 120 patients with a unilateral inguinal hernia were identified as obliterated processus vaginalis by intraoperative laparoscopic examination of the contralateral internal ring when they received unilateral herniorrhaphy. A five-year follow-up of the contralateral side to determine the rate of subsequent inguinal hernia was carried out during an outpatient clinic check-up or by telephone contact. RESULTS: One patient, among the first few patients having laparoscopic examinations, had a subsequent contralateral inguinal hernia. Two patients had hydroceles and each of the operative findings was a communicating hydrocele that could not possibly develop into a clinical hernia. CONCLUSIONS: It is unlikely for an obliterated processus vaginalis indicated by intraoperative laparoscopic examination to become a clinical inguinal hernia.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]