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 ...

Wound dehiscence typically occurs a few days after surgery, when healing is still in the early stages. It can be either partial, where the wound pulls apart in small areas, or complete, where the ...

Wound dehiscence occurs when a surgical incision reopens either internally or externally. It’s also known simply as dehiscence. Although this complication can occur after any surgery, it tends ...

Surgery to areas around the head, face and neck can present challenges to clinicians even after the initial procedure is completed. In current oral and maxillofacial surgery, protecting the area ...

High blood sugar levels linked to increased wound complications after surgery Date: October 1, 2013 Source: Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Summary: A new study released shows ...

Purpose This study compares the frequencies of traumatic wound dehiscence following extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and following phacoemulsification through a self-sealing corneoscleral ...

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 ...

This lab, led by Dr. Tim King, has had a keen interest in combining molecular biology, cellular biology and biomaterials science to the practice of medicine. He has discovered that Notch, a family of ...

There was a 4% complication rate. This included superficial wound infections that required oral antibiotics and wound episodes for treatment. The mean time to surgery was 6 days.

Top honors were awarded to Dr. Brian Lepow, assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, and Dr. Alejandro Zulbaran, an international medical graduate ...