This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Umbilical discharge in infancy is a common pediatric problem and usually attributed to infe...

Standard abdominoplasty techniques involve a low horizontal or W skin excision, muscle plication, and umbilical transposition. Newer techniques include suction-assisted lipectomy, the use of high lateral tension with fascial suspension, and external oblique muscle advancement. The author has modified these traditional procedures and added new techniques to improve the aesthetic and functional r...

Objectives: The umbilicus is often used as a port insertion site during laparoscopic surgery because the wound invisible after surgery. However, its concave shape makes postoperative treatment difficult, resulting in umbilical keloids due to infection. Current study reports four cases of excision with satisfactory results following full-thickness skin grafts and radiation therapy.

There is currently no consensus regarding the optimal protocol for measurement of waist circumference (WC), and no scientific rationale is provided for any of the WC protocols recommended by leading health authorities. A panel of experts conducted a systematic review of 120 studies (236 samples) to determine whether measurement protocol influenced the relationship of WC with morbidity of cardio...

Surgical repair of large umbilical hernias may present a challenging surgical problem; standard surgical techniques have proven to be inadequate for both closing the fascial defect of the umbilicus and providing a satisfactory cosmetic result. We describe here a case of double half-cone flap umbilicoplasty that was performed in a 2 years old boy. The case of a 2 years old child with proboscoid ...

Purpose: Preoperative imaging evaluation may be useful for determining the position of recti abdominis muscles before their correction. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography to measure the width of rectus abdominis muscle diastasis. Methods: Rectus diastasis was measured by ultrasonography preoperatively in 20 females. Rectus diastasis was measured in seven le...

BACKGROUND Abdominal obesity is an important cardiovascular risk factor. Therefore, identifying the best method for measuring waist circumference (WC) is a priority. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the eight methods of measuring WC in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) as a predictor of cardiovascular complications during hospitalization. METHODS Prospective study of patients with ACS. The m...

During the middle and later part of the last century thousands of infants in this country and on the continent died annually as a result of umbilical infection. Two types were recognized: (a) Moist spreading gangrene of the umbilicus (hospital gangrene) when children died of toxaemia, septicaemia, peritonitis and occasionally rupture of the abdominal wall. (b) Erysipelas of the umbilicus, also ...