Across the industry, about 10% of patients are too heavy to undergo joint replacements. Since 2011, the rate of bariatric surgery in patients has more than quadrupled. The number of U.S. patients ...

A recent study has successfully decoded the autotetraploid genome of the wax apple, uncovering its genetic evolution and key ...

Simultaneous panniculectomy in ventral hernia repair may lower recurrence rates, and increase wound morbidity suggests a ...

The study included a group of patients that underwent laparotomy procedures complicated by postoperative abdominal wound dehiscence, defined as "separation of the layers of the surgical wound ...

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.