Medically reviewed by Jamin Brahmbhatt, MD A urostomy is a surgical procedure that creates an artificial opening in the ...

A man who brandished a knife in a police station car park before smashing windows and kicking police cars died of a gunshot wound to his abdomen, an inquest has heard. A jury at Derby Coroner's Court ...

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.

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 ...