INGUINAL HERNIOPLASTY DEVICE Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61F2/02 A61B17/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to surgical devices and aims at increasing the reliability of inguinal hernioplasty. The device comprises of two rectangular portions of the same length and different width, one of which, a wider one, made of a non-absorbable material, is used to reinforce the posterior wall of the inguinal canal, while the other one, more narrow, having a width of 1 cm is used to form an inferior wall of the inguinal canal. The portion of the device, which is used to form the inferior portion of the anterior wall of the inguinal canal is made of an absorbable material or presented with an ultra-light-weight non-absorbable mesh containing 10-25 mg/m² of polypropylene. Each of the portions of the device is connected to the other one by one of its longer edges or along a line parallel to its longer edges so that the portions of the device project over the shorter edges of each other.

EFFECT: invention provides reducing the contact area of the spermatic cord with a foreign material.

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