Background: Posterior abdominal wall deficiency (PAWD) is a tear in the external oblique aponeurosis or the conjoint tendon causing a posterior wall defect at the medial end of the inguinal canal. It ...

This corresponds to the anatomical position of the inguinal ligament, a thickening of the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle. Superior to this line, working from the pubic tubercle medially to ...

from and parallel to the inguinal ligament, as described by Farris et al. The external oblique muscle is next sutured over the spermatic cord with interrupted sutures of No. 20 cotton, and at the ...

After skin incision, the external oblique aponeurosis is opened and its lower leaf freed ... the great toe side of the foot), which fits in the sharp angle between the inguinal ligament and anterior ...