[Inguinal hernioplasty by a modified Shouldice technic. Our experience with 350 treated cases].

A statistical analysis of 340 patients operated between 1986 and 1991 for inguinal hernia using the Shouldice procedure are reported by the authors. The majority of patients (60%) treated was between 45 and 65 years old. Two-hundred-eighty-one (82%) were controlled with a mean follow-up of 30 months (range 1-6 years) and was executed with physical examination and a medical questionnaire looking for recurring factors of risk.

[Parietal damage in intestinal infarction. Clinical and anatomo-pathological considerations].

The physiopathology of parietal damage due to acute ischaemia is reviewed on the basis of a personal series of more than 70 cases. The reported data (not particularly abundant) is examined and an attempt made to draw conclusions that, free from mere theoretical and abstract value, may materially help the surgeon in his by no means easy decision to revascularize or resect an intestinal segment.