INTRODUCTION The incidence of incisional hernia depends on many factors factors including old age, sex, obesity, bowel surgery, suture type, chest infection, abdominal distension and wound infection. CASE REPORT A 55 years old woman presented at out institute, she had an operation 19 years ago - elsewhere - to remove a branched stone from her right kidney and admitted for two months into the ...

Bevacizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), often used in combinational chemotherapy regimens for the treatment of patients with colorectal liver metastases. However adverse events have been attributed to the use of bevacizumab including gastrointestinal perforations, thrombotic events, hypertension, bleeding, and wound healing complicatio...

IMPORTANCE Incisional hernia is the most frequent surgical complication after laparotomy. Up to 30% of all patients undergoing laparotomy develop an incisional hernia. OBJECTIVE To compare laparoscopic vs open ventral incisional hernia repair with regard to postoperative pain and nausea, operative results, perioperative and postoperative complications, hospital admission, and recurrence rate....

Propolis is a resinous, sticky substance that bees collect from conifer buds and use to repair cracks in their hives. Propolis was used in folk medicine as early as 300 BC as an anti-inflammatory drug and wound healing agent. We studied the effect of Propolis on wound healing in albino rats. Twenty male albino rats had a linear 3 cm incision made over skin of back. The animals were randomly div...

Incisional hernia is the second most common type of hernia. occurs in 10-20% patients who were subjected to abdominal surgery India. Here we are presenting a case series 20 with incisional and obesity. Body mass index (BMI) ranges from 28 35 all cases. Females outnumbered male ratio 4:1 40% cases had previous history caesarean section. All operated by combining open polypropylene meshplasty abd...

OBJECTIVES To investigate negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) to prevent wound dehiscence and infection after high-risk lower extremity trauma. DESIGN Prospective randomized multicenter clinical trial. SETTING Four Level I trauma centers. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS Blunt trauma patients with one of three high-risk fracture types (tibial plateau, pilon, calcaneus) requiring surgical stabiliz...

Upon revisiting of our large library of archived human skin wound specimens, we observed that stratum lucidum interfollicular parakeratotic corneocytes appear to take an active role in epidermal wound healing by expanding, migrating and bifurcating to interact directly with and secure the wound scab in place. Our observations are based on the morphologic analysis of 240 acute, normal, full-thic...

OBJECTIVE Complications associated with wound healing after abdominal tumor operations continue to be a significant problem. This study aimed to determine the significance of retention sutures in preventing these complications. For this purpose, early and late term results of patients who underwent application of polydioxanone (PDS) and additional retention sutures for abdominal closure were re...