[Assessment of methods of placement of polypropylene meshes in alloplasty of ventral hernias].

Alloplasty with polypropylene meshes was fulfilled in 153 patients with ventral hernias. Most frequently the prosthesis was placed in the preperitoneal fatty tissue under the sutured muscular-aponeurotic margins of the hernia hilus (61 patients) or in sheathes of the rectus muscle of the abdomen (48 patients). Best results were obtained after implantation of the mesh in sheathes of the rectus muscle of the abdomen. The greatest number of complications and recurrences was obtained in alloplasty above aponeurosis.