UNLABELLED Background / Aim: Incisional hernia is still relatively common in our practice. The aim of the study was to identify risk factors associated with incisional hernia in our region. The setting is the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria during a period when prosthetic mesh was not readily available. PATIENTS AND METHODS All the women who presented w...

EROGLU, E., AGALAR, F., ALTUNTAS, I. and EROGLU, F. Effects of GlanulocyteColony Simulating Factor on Wound Healing in a Mouse Model of Burn Trauma. Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 2004, 204 (1), 11-16 ── The effects of burn trauma and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) treatment on wound healing in a surgical incision model were studied. Sixty adult male mice were used in this study. Under gen...

Skin wound healing especially when it occurs on the face or somewhere important for cosmetic reasons, is very significant physiological procedure. It is quite obvious that promoting this healing is important too. In this study we tried to compare the effects of Achillea millefolium and Zinc oxide on secondary intentioned open-wound healing in rats. Zinc oxide is being used worldwide as an absor...

BACKGROUND Subcutaneous reservoirs are used to provide therapy by establishing access to cerebrospinal fluid. However, it is associated with complications such as hemorrhage, infection, malfunction, and malpositioning. In an irradiated field with thin skin, use of reservoir can result in wound dehiscence, wound infection, and device extrusion. CASE DESCRIPTION We introduced a "countersinking"...

Background: Surgical wound (site) infection is the commonest complication following laparotomy for clean-contaminated and contaminated abdominal operations. Good surgical technique and perioperative prophylactic antibiotics in clean-contaminated and contaminated abdominal operations contribute to the low rate of surgical wound infection and its complications. The objectives of this study were t...

Abstract Aims Incisional hernias are a common complication after surgery that cause significant patient morbidity. Symptomatic patients offered repair but many surgical techniques exist, with abdominal wall reconstruction becoming preferable for large complex defects. This paper describes our experience of using dual mesh technique. Method 22 underwent incisional hernia between March 2019 and S...

We read with interest the letter by Stockmann, et al entitled “A wound size-dependent effect of myeloid cell-derived vascular endothelial growth factor on wound healing” (Stockmann, et al, 2011). The results presented in this paper suggest that myeloid cell-derived VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) is important for expedient closure in large excisional wounds, where it contributes signi...

OBJECTIVE Various ventral and incisional hernia repair techniques exist and have largely replaced the open ones. The purpose of this study was to document the 2-port technique and demonstrate that it is feasible, efficient, and safe. To our knowledge, this is the largest report on this topic to date in the English-language literature. METHODS Forty patients with ventral hernias (VH) or incisi...