Repair of herniation is one of the most frequentsurgical procedures performed by general surgeonsand is probably the one which has most technicaloptions. In current literature are described over ahundred of such procedures with various modificationswhereupon we may conclude that there is nounique type of repair that has prevailed o ver andabove the others as the ideal treatment.The rafe of complications and recurrences constitutethe main quality criterion far herniorrhaphies.lt is not always possible to reproduce in UniversityHospitals the good results which are achieved incenters which specialize in the surgery of hernias.Surgeons have a different formative basis and generalsurgéons do not confine themselves exclusive/y to this type of surgery.

La reparación de las hernias inguinales es unode los procedimientos quirúrgicos más frecuentesrealizados por los cirujanos generales y probablemente,uno de los que mayores opciones técnicastienen. En la literatura actual están descritos másde un centenar de procedimientos con sus diferentesmodificaciones, traduciendo que no existeun tipo de reparación que haya logrado imponersecomo el tratamiento ideal.