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        <journal-title>Journal of Medical Insight</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2373-6003</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">290.2</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24296/jomi/290.2</article-id>
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          <subject>Research article</subject>
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        <article-title>Intraperitoneal Mesh Repair for Incisional Hernia</article-title>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <year>2024</year>
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      <volume>2024</volume>
      <issue>09</issue>
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        <copyright-statement>2017 Journal of Medical Insight</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2017</copyright-year>
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        <p>Incisional hernias remain an important postoperative complication of any procedure involving a laparotomy incision. Although most incisional hernias remain asymptomatic, incarceration and strangulation are emergent complications requiring prompt diagnosis and intervention. Mesh repair has become widely favored over simple suture repair of abdominal fascial defects in recent decades, though recurrence of incisional hernias remains high. Despite the advent of laparoscopic approaches to hernia repair, open approaches are utilized when numerous adhesions are encountered, laparoscopic access is unsafe, or when laparoscopy is not readily available. We present an open surgical repair of a large incisional hernia involving the abdominal midline and parastomal site in a woman with a history of laparotomy and colostomy with a subsequent reversal for a perforated colon.</p>
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        <kwd>General</kwd>
        <kwd>Surgery,</kwd>
        <kwd>Hernia</kwd>
        <kwd>Repair,</kwd>
        <kwd>Mesh,</kwd>
        <kwd>Global</kwd>
        <kwd>World</kwd>
        <kwd>Surgical</kwd>
        <kwd>Foundation</kwd>
        <kwd>Open</kwd>
        <kwd>Common</kwd>
        <kwd>Adult</kwd>
        <kwd>Female</kwd>
        <kwd>Adhesiolysis</kwd>
        <kwd>Repair with Mesh</kwd>
        <kwd>Resource-Limited Settings</kwd>
        <kwd>Midline Incision</kwd>
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