Two-time Olympic gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin suffered an abdominal puncture wound during a crash in a giant slalom race in Killington, Vermont, on Saturday. And as you can imagine, when you hear ...

The aim of this multicenter study was to determine whether interrupted sutures were better than or inferior to continuous sutures for closing an upper midline abdominal incision. A total of 625 ...

The Baylor Medicine Hernia Center offers comprehensive care for a vast array of hernias, ranging from simple to complex abdominal wall problems, including umbilical hernias, inguinal hernias, ventral ...

Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, surgeons have successfully performed an appendectomy with no abdominal incision. The appendix was ...

Background The medical literature includes two risk scores predicting the occurrence of abdominal wound dehiscence. These risk indices were validated by the authors on the populations studied. However ...