A 36-year-old manual worker presented in her second pregnancy at 34 weeks of gestation with an unusual bulge of her abdomen. The lower abdominal bulge turned out to be her gravid uterus herniated through an anterior abdominal wall incisional hernia which is a rare but serious obstetric situation with complications such as premature labour, intrauterine growth retardation, strangulation, intraut...

The abdominal wall is a very rare site for endometrial cancer metastases. Its appearance generally indicates advanced cancer with poor prognosis. We report a case of a 55-year-old female who presented with an incisional hernia 4 years after abdominal panhysterectomy for endometrioid adenocarcinoma in 2009. Open hernia mesh repair was performed but on follow-up, she complained of pain and a swel...

Background Abdominal stab injury is potential life-threatening injuries. Operation should be considered if wound violate the peritoneal layer and/or complicated with hemodynamic compromise, peritonitis, impalement, or evisceration. It is well known there are several diagnostic tools to evaluate the necessity of operation for a patient with abdominal stab injury. Despite numerous diagnostic tool...

abdominal wall hernias are the most common situations requiring major surgeries. in this study, we report a large incisional hernia, as an incidental finding, in a tc-dtpa scan of a renal transplant recepient. increased flow of activity in dynamic phase and relatively increased and nonuniform tracer accumulation in static phase of the study were observed.

An incisional hernia (Fig 1.) is defined as any abdominal wall gap with or without a bulge in the area of a postoperative scar perceptible or palpable by clinical examination or imaging [1]. Incisional hernia is a common long-term complication following abdominal surgery and is estimated to occur in 11-23% [2, 3]. Risk factors for incisional hernia are male gender, body mass index, cancer, and ...

BACKGROUND The aim was to determine whether systemic antibiotic prophylaxis prevented wound infection after repair of abdominal wall hernia with mesh. METHODS This was a systematic review of the available literature identified from multiple databases using the terms 'hernia' and 'antibiotic prophylaxis'. Randomized placebo-controlled trials of antibiotic prophylaxis in abdominal wall mesh her...

We report a rare case of traumatic abdominal wall hernia (TAWH) caused by a traffic accident. A 47-year-old woman presented to the emergency room soon after a traffic accident. She complained of diffuse, dull abdominal pain and mild nausea. She had no history of prior abdominal surgery or hernia. We found a bulging mass on her right abdomen. Plain abdominal films demonstrated a protrusion of ho...

Abdominal wall reconstruction with component separation at the time of incisional hernia among survivors emergency laparotomy after traumatic injuries: a population-based analysis complications and healthcare utilization

Traumatic hernia of the abdominal wall is a rare and easily missed injury in the presence of major pelvic and abdominal lesions. We present a radiographically documented case of combined pelvic and acetabular fracture with a major contralateral traumatic hernia with avulsion of the internal oblique, the external oblique and the transverse abdominal muscles diagnosed four months after the initia...

Introduction: Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernia (TAWH) is a rare kind of hernia. The diagnosis of TAWHs can be challenging and TAWHs may go undiagnosed for long periods of time. Case presentation: A sixty-year-old male who had been involved in a car crash 10 years earlier was referred to us for a giant post-traumatic umbilical hernia. The clinical assessment revealed an irreducible huge hernia of...