[Prosthetic surgical treatment of inguinal hernias. Parietalization of the spermatic cord].

We confirm the advantages offered by "parietalization" of the spermatic chord components in prosthetic repair of inguinal hernias. The term is particularly well suited to the procedure when the abdominal approach is used: there is no need to split the dacron mesh to let the chord through; the zigzagging transparietal course of the chord is extended laterally. We must add that ligation of the epigastric vessels is unnecessary with the abdominal approach.