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 ...

Surgeries performed with specialized medical devices requiring only small incisions, called laparoscopic surgery, have many advantages over traditional open surgery, including less pain, fewer ...

A hernia occurs when part of an internal organ or tissue pushes through a weak spot or opening in the muscle or tissue that ...

1. After administering anesthesia the abdomen and vagina are prepared with an antibacterial solution. 2. A surgical incision about 5 to 6 inches long or 12 to 15 cms is made either vertically, running ...

Whether a midline or transverse incision is used in abdominal surgery depends mainly on the disease, anatomy and potential effects on wound healing, pain and postoperative complications. Decisions can ...

Breaking new ground in what many surgeons consider the next frontier in minimally invasive surgery, Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeon Kurt Roberts, M.D., successfully ...

A new technique now in use at UC San Diego Medical Center reduces the amount of skin that must go under the knife for abdominal surgery. The procedure makes a roughly half-inch incision inside a ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have created a new surgical technique that in extensive animal studies is safe and may improve even further the benefit of minimally invasive surgery by leaving the ...

For the first time the incision technique used in major abdominal surgery has come under the scanner in a study at the Department of Surgery at Heidelberg University Hospital For the first time the ...