Table 2.

Clinical characteristics and developing external inguinal hernia in male patients.

	DEIH	Non-DEIH	P value
	(N = 8)	(N = 429)
Age	68.0 ± 12.1	65.2 ± 14.7	0.5923
BMI (mean ± SD)	25.3 ± 3.6	22.9 ± 3.4	0.0651
PPV
Present	5	100	0.0107
Absent	3	329
Length of right PPV (mm, mean ± SD)	18.1 ± 25.3	3.6 ± 10.7	0.0028
Length of left PPV (mm, mean ± SD)	2.5 ± 4.6	1.8 ± 6.7	0.7729
Diameter of right PPV (mm, mean ± SD)	5.37 ± 5.0	1.53 ± 4.4	0.0359
Diameter of left PPV (mm, mean ± SD)	2.5 ± 4.6	0.97 ± 3.2	0.2181

Abbreviations: DEIH, developing external inguinal hernia; PPV, patent processus vaginalis; BMI, body mass index.