Background Chronic groin pain is a common and debilitating condition in highly active athletes. Symptoms are often ascribed to the so-called Sportsman's Hernia, and these patients frequently undergo ...

With the work of Bassini the era of modern treatment of the inguinal hernia began. Numerous modifications to the Bassini technique are based on the principle of layer-for-layer suturing of the ...

IN 1889, Edward Bassini, of Italy, in prefacing his report on 251 cases of inguinal hernia, said: "After all that has been written with such feverish diligence up to the present time concerning the ...

THE recurrence rate of large inguinal hernias of many years' duration remains high. The tissue in these cases is extremely poor, and the gap to be bridged is wide. In selected cases, in which a ...

What is Inguinal Disruption / Gilmore's Groin? Gilmore’s groin is also known as sportsman’s groin or athletic pubalgia. It is named Gilmore’s groin after Jerry Gilmore, who first described the ...

A few months ago I saw my GP and told him I felt pain in my left testicle that radiated towards my hip. He gave me antibiotics and told me it was problably epidydimitis. Two weeks later I went back to ...

An inguinal hernia is a lump in the groin region, caused by the protrusion of the abdominal cavity fat or intestine, along with its peritoneal covering, and associated fluid, through the abdominal ...