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Infection of the postoperative abdominal wound not uncommonly leads to an incisional hernia at a later date, especially if the infection was not detected and drained widely early in the course of its development. Blomstedt and Welin-Berger studied 279 patients for 8–24 months after cholecystectomy. In the absence of a wound infection, 6% developed an incisional hernia. Of the patients suffering postoperative wound infections, 31% had incisional hernias.
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Chassin, J.L. (1994). Operations for Large Ventral Hernia. In: Operative Strategy in General Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4169-8_85
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