Resumen

GODERICH LALAN, José Miguel et al. Hernias suprapúbicas: Un reto para el cirujano. Rev Cubana Cir [online]. 2003, vol.42, n.3. ISSN 0034-7493.

As it leaves from the abdominal studies of hernias is the result of the treatment a complex type of them, hernia suprapúbica, that requires an important anatomical knowledge in the repair behavior. This is not frequent, represents 2 % of all hernias. The objective of the work was the one to evaluate the results to short and long term, in the General Hospital of Santiago of Cuba, between 1ro. of January of 1994 and the 31 of December of 1998. It was made descriptive, longitudinal, observacional and clinical a study of patients operated by the technique of Rives-Bendavit with the bioprótesis use, the one that was placed in the preperitoneal and fixed space to the arcuato ligament, the later face of the sínfisis of pubis, to the ligament of Cooper and laterally to the straight muscle and its aponeurosis. (5.21 %) was operated 39 patients with single 2 recidivas, and rejection in any patient did not appear. The technique constitutes excellent means for the repair of these complex hernias. The results found by the authors of this article are in international the optimal limit

Palabras clave : HERNIA, VENTRAL [surgery]; BIOPROSTHESIS; SURGICAL MESH.