OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of skin incision location for total laryngectomy with pharyngectomy (TLP) on postoperative outcomes including wound dehiscence and infection rate. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Academic tertiary care center. METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted of all patients undergoing TLP with flap closure at Johns Hopkins Medical Ins...

INTRODUCTION Wound dehiscence is one of the most common complications of surgical ulcer, involving the breaking open of the surgical incision along the stitch. This condition is a severe complication of total knee arthroplasty. PRESENTATION OF CASE We report a case of a 59-year-old female patient with diabetes who underwent a total knee arthroplasty in which all layers of wounds were dehiscen...

purpose: to investigate the risk factors of wound dehiscence and lens extrusion following blunt trauma in patients with penetrating keratoplasty (pk) as well as the results of treatment. methods: in a retrospective case series, 7 eyes of 7 patients including 6 male and one female subjects were investigated. all cases received primary care at the time of referral and then underwent secondary rep...

Caesarean wound dehiscence that is severe enough to result in bowel herniation is exceptionally rare. This case describes a woman who experienced wound dehiscence following each of her two Caesarean sections, with bowel herniation present in the second case. The contribution of her comorbid hidradenitis suppurativa will be discussed.

A patient who underwent emergency laparotomy for rectal prolapse developed repeated abdominal wound dehiscence and subsequently an enteric fistula. The management of abdominal wound dehiscence is discussed, specifically with regards to the Bogota bag. Use of Bogota bag has been reported worldwide but this may be the first report here.

PURPOSE To report amniotic membrane (AM) transplantation in a patient with wound dehiscence 5 months after deep lamellar keratoplasty (DLKP) METHODS: The patient was an 84-year-old Japanese man who had undergone right DLKP 5 months earlier for central corneal scarring due to recurrent stromal herpetic keratitis. He developed wound dehiscence with corneal stromal melting due to recurrence of str...