Among the 1,879 patients undergoing intra-abdominal procedures during the study period 56 patients were included in the validation group; the patients developed wound dehiscence during the ...

The case featured in the American Journal of Medical Case Reports. Dehiscence, which is when a surgical wound reopen, is thought to happen in three-in-100 people who have undergone abdominal and p ...

In conclusion, both the VAMC and Rotterdam score indices can be used to predict the development of abdominal wound dehiscence. The VAMC prognostic score had better calibration and discriminative ...