Lord's plication is done for: (A) Inguinal hernia, (B) Testicular cancer, (C) Hydrocele, (D) Testicular varices
Answer is C. Lord's plication is done for hydrocele. It is suitable when the sac is small, thin walled and contains clear fluid. Here tunica is bunched into a 'ruff' at its attachment to the testis by using a series of multiple interrupted chromic catgut sutures to plicate the redundant tunica vaginalis, so as to make the sac to form fibrous tissue. Reference : page1072 SRB's manual of surgery 5th edition