This article consists of a clinical analysis of 221 cases of the Pediatric Inguinal Hernia treated in General Surgery of Pusan Adventist Hospital, from January 1990 to June 1996.
@ES The results were as follows;
@EN 1) Patients with inguinal hernia were 37.5% of total operative patients in the division of pediatric surgery.
2) Males predominated over females by the ratio of 5.5:1
3) Of 221 cases, 101(54%) were on the Rt side, 80(43.1%) on the Lt side and the remainder (6.4%) on both side in case of Male. 20(58.8%) were on the Rt side, 13(38.2%) on the Lt side and the remainder (3.0%) on both side in case of female.
4) The chief Complaints were inguinal protrusion in 131 cases(59.3%) and scrotal enlargement in 77 cases(34.9%).
5) Peak incidence age (32 Months) & Duration of history (20.2 Months).
6) Associated diseases were found in 10 cases(4.9%) and they were cryptorchidism (1.47%), hydroclele (0.98%), Umbilical hermia (0.49%), Heart anomaly (0.49%), cleft palate (0.49%), Teratoma (0.49%), and Jejunal atresia (0.49%).
Family History was denied
7) all were indirect hernia.
8) In no space carcerated cases were 6(2.7%) and the ratio of male to female was 2:1 and the location of incarcerated hernia was Rt (66.6%), and Lt (33.3%).
9) There were 70 cases of strangulation.
10) Intraperitoneal organ in hernial sac was noted in 5 cases (2.26%), and they were ovary and follopian tube in 3 cases (1.35%), small intestine in 1 case (0.45%), cecum and appendix in 1 case (0.45%).
11) 215 (97%) of all hernia were repaired only highligation of sac and 6(3%) were inforced with Bassini's posterior wall repair.
12) Mean postoperative hospitalization were 5.2 days.
13) Postoperative complications occurred in only 2 cases : hematoma and edema 1, wound infection 1.
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