Lord's plication is done for
Inguinal hernia
Testicular cancer
Hydrocele
Testicular varices
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
Urology