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Original article| Volume 32, ISSUE 1, P99, April 1936

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Substernal thyroid

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      Abstract

      A method for the repair of a certain type of inguinal hernia using the hernial sac as suture material has been described. There were 12 cases completely successful and one partially successful.
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