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.

To reinforce the abdominal wall at the affected area, a mesh is implanted, after the repair is completed, the incision is closed with stitches. It is a modern surgical technique that is used in ...

Using the Da Vinci robot, your surgeon repairs the hernia via telemanipulation and then surrounds the affected tissue in a mesh covering, which secures and strengthens the abdominal wall. The incision ...

Muysoms FE, Antoniou SA, Bury K, et al.: European Hernia Society guidelines on the closure of abdominal wall incisions. Hernia 2015; 19: 1–24 CrossRef MEDLINE 6. Kössler-Ebs JB, Grummich K ...

An incisional hernia may occur because surgery has weakened the abdominal wall. Umbilical hernias ... the surgeon will make a small incision in the person’s abdomen and insert a tube with ...

Incisional Hernias can occur in anyone who has an incision, most commonly an incision through the abdominal wall. It represents a failure of the layer that gives strength to the abdominal wall ...

During a renal autotransplant procedure, surgeons use a type of minimally-invasive surgery called laparoscopy to make small cuts (or incisions) to view the inside of your abdominal wall. Surgeons use ...