Wound dehiscence is a surgical complication where an incision reopens either internally or externally. Also known as wound breakdown, wound disruption, or wound separation, these terms describe ...

Wound dehiscence is a surgery complication where the incision, a cut made during a surgical procedure, reopens. It is sometimes called wound breakdown, wound disruption, or wound separation.

Results Twenty-one cases of traumatic wound dehiscence were identified following 5600 ECCEs (0.4%). In 4200 phacoemulsification procedures only one case of traumatic wound dehiscence was ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Despite a higher risk of superficial wound dehiscence found among female patients and patients with higher BMI after total hip arthroplasty, results showed these patients had ...

Recently published randomized controlled trial assessed the efficacy and safety of three wound closure ...

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Abdominal wound dehiscence occurred on average at the 9.8 ± 6.5 postoperative day (median: 8 days). The mortality of patients in this group was 25%. In addition, ...

Results Among the 1,879 patients undergoing intra-abdominal, 56 patients developed wound dehiscence and 168 patients included in the control group. Calculation of risk scores for all patients ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Schwartz, MD Serosanguineous drainage is the normal discharge of fluid from a wound or incision site after surgery. This usually appears as a thin, often slightly ...

Wound dehiscence or the splitting open of wound edges can be a significant risk resulting from this kind of body lift procedure. One solution for this is to use collagen wound dressings, ...