A review of six years' experience with antenatal diagnosis of abdominal wall defects by ultrasound showed its impact to be limited by poor detection rates. Twenty infants with exomphalos and 20 with gastroschisis were recorded but only 25 (63%) were diagnosed antenatally. The ultrasound false negative rate was higher for exomphalos (35%) than for gastroschisis (22%). No difference was detected ...

A spigelian hernia is a protrusion through an anterior abdominal wall defect along the linea semilunaris. The traditional method of repair consists of an open surgical technique requiring a lengthy abdominal incision to allow visualization of the defect. However, with the emergence and availability of laparoscopic techniques, a minimally invasive approach is feasible. Only eight prior case repo...

Minimally invasive (laparoscopic) ventral hernia repair is performed by covering the hernia defect with a sheet of prosthetic mesh, which requires fixation with a combination of staples and anchoring sutures. There are two major issues with this technique: (1) sometimes some of the staples need to be removed in order to adjust the mesh position prior to final fixation; and (2) anchoring sutures...

INTRODUCTION Traumatic hernia of the abdominal wall is a rare entity. A large proportion of reported cases are in children with a particular type of injury, i.e. from a handlebar injury. In adults, the presentation can vary substantially and the diagnosis is difficult. We present two cases in adults, with widely varying presentations and management. CASE PRESENTATIONS A 40-year-old woman from...

The newborn who has an abdominal wall defect is one of the most dramatic presentations in medicine and offers many challenging problems to the pediatric surgeon. This article presents the basics of the two most common abdominal wall defectsdgastroschisis and omphaloceledincluding principles and options of prenatal, postnatal, and surgical management. Although textbooks group the two entities to...

RATIONALE Abdominal wall defects are common after tumor resection. PATIENT CONCERNS We report an 83-year-old male patient with recurrent tumors in his abdomen, and who had an incision wound that could not be directly closed. Mesh was not suitable because the wound was infected. DIAGNOSES Abdominal wall defect result from the resection of recurrent tumor. INTERVENTIONS We carried out a vas...

OBJECTIVE To analyze fetal abdominal defects diagnosed during the prenatal period in the perinatology department in a tertiary center in Turkey. METHODS This retrospective study consisted of 27 cases diagnosed with fetal abdominal wall defects between January 2011 and February 2014 in the perinatology outpatient clinic of Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey. RESULTS Eighteen (66.7%) case...