Repair of abdominal incisional hernia

ABSTRACT

A simple; anatomic extraperitoneal approach for the repair of varying sizes of postoperative ventral abdominal herniae is described. This involves reconstruction of linea alba and repair using interrupted nylon sutures without tension on the edges. 27 patients managed with this technique between 1987 and 1990 with a follow up of one to four years; with neither death nor hernia recurrence are presented