he would be more interested in symptoms improving rather than the issue of recurrence of the hernia per se.

if the hernia is easily reducible and not tender it is not incarcerated and therefore it is not strangulated. He agreed that there was a high incidence of recurrence of umbilical hernias and a risk of incarceration and strangulation to some degree. He described the particular orifice in Mr Biffin’s case as a moderate sized […]