conclusions vacuum-assisted abdominal closure is a good technique for temporary abdominal closure. in patients who are unable to achieve fascial closure, skin closure alone is safe. results after 157 trauma laparotomies, 35 (22%) were open abdomen cases with an average injury severity score was 35. ninety-four percent of open abdomens occurred after damage-control surgery. temporary vacuum-assi...

background trocar site, incisional hernia is one of the serious complications of laparoscopic surgery. as a result, many surgeons prefer to close the fascia, especially in those sites where a trocar of 10 mm in size or larger has been inserted. on the other hand, suturing the fascia may lead to damage of other tissues, such as the intestines; hence, some surgeons prefer not to close the fascia....

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic techniques are increasingly being utilized to diagnose and successfully manage intestinal obstruction. CASE REPORT We describe a patient who presented with intestinal obstruction following a recent abdominal hysterectomy. The obstruction was caused by entrapment of a segment of small bowel containing a Meckel's diverticulum within a pouch formed by the peritoneal layer...

OBJECTIVE To assess the local wound complications in complicated/ high risk laparotomies in terms of wound dehiscence and incisional hernia formation with a modified technique of midline abdominal wound closure. STUDY DESIGN Quasi-experimental study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of General Surgery, Combined Military Hospital, Bahawal Nagar Cantonment, May 2006 to June 2008. METH...

Transient responses of sap flow to step changes in wind speed were experimentally investigated in a wind tunnel. A Granier-type sap flow sensor was calibrated and tested in a cylindrical tube for analysis of its transient time response. Then the sensor was used to measure the transient response of a well-watered Pachira macrocarpa plant to wind speed variations. The transient response of sap fl...

reconstruction of breast with transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (tram) flap is the standard for reconstruction of breast following mastectomy. in this article, authors report their experience with pedicled tram flap reconstruction of the breast. records for the patients who had undergone breast reconstruction with pedicled tram flap were retrieved. records of outpatient follow-ups were a...

Stomatal control of water loss was studied in a low pressure environment by using detached leaves of Crassula argentea Thunb., Peperomia obtusifolia (L.) A. Dietr., and Setcreasea pallida Rose cv. ;Purple Heart.' The transient behavior of temperature and rate of mass loss were determined. A model based on free molecule gas flow was developed and used to predict mass loss to within the same orde...