Day-hospital and local anesthesia with Trabucco procedure in treatment of inguinal and femoral hernia. Personal experience

Since Bassini performed the first hernioplasty, more than one hundred years ago, all types of surgical procedure to repair groin and femoral hernias have a common defect: tension on suture line. This is the first pathological factors of recurrence hernia. Utilizing modern new prosthetic materials it's now possible to repair all types of hernias without changing normal anatomy of the region and without unwillingly tensions. After 15 years of experience with Shulman and Amid, Irwing L. Lichtenstein introduces the real change in hernia repair: the tension free repair. Trabucco aquired and changed the technique popularized by Lichtenstein. The technique championed by the authors is simple, effective, rapid, the postoperative pain is reduced and all patients return rapidly to full activities. Authors using Trabucco procedure to repair groin and femoral hernias in day hospital, describe their experience between January 1991 to November 1993.