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The Shouldice repair avoids prosthetic mesh implantation and uses the patient’s own tissues to produce a strong, durable inguinal hernia repair. This chapter details the indications, preoperative preparation, pitfalls and danger points, operative strategy and technique, postoperative care, and complications of this repair technique.
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Arshava, E. V., & Alexander, M. (2022). Shouldice Repair of Inguinal Hernia. In Chassin’s Operative Strategy in General Surgery: An Expositive Atlas: Fifth Edition (pp. 831–844). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81415-1_106
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