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What does hernioplasty mean?

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Noun
  1. (surgery) A hernia repair operation, which makes use of a mesh patch to strengthen the site of defect to prevent recurrence.
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Potentially serious iatrogenic complications occasionally occur after ventral hernioplasty.
Herniated small bowel and atrophic change of the surrounding muscle and fascia Fig. 3 Lichtenstein tension-free hernioplasty.
Finally, we performed hernioplasty of the umbilical hernia and sutured the hernia orifice after resection of the sac.
Herniorrhaphy, hernioplasty, and herniotomy are the surgical procedures that involve the use of hernia repair devices to correct the condition.
When herniation occurs, we can consider several methods like Bassini repair, Shouldice repair, and tension-free hernioplasty.
Among them, tension-free hernioplasty is known as a representative method.

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