"When you cut a patient that is overweight, you're much more prone to infections of the abdominal wall, " Horgan said.

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He only succeeds in driving it deep into her abdominal wall.

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With inflatable implants, doctors put cylinders inside the penis, a pump in the scrotum, and a fluid reserve inside either the scrotum or the abdominal wall.

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But in either surgery, small nerves can be irritated by the procedure or the repair mesh as well as by sutures or tacks used to hold the mesh against the abdominal wall.

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So we tried a temporary solution we had radiologists place a plastic drain, using X-ray guidance, through his abdominal wall and into the severed duct in order to draw the leaking bile out of him.

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Stoma care refers to the care required by patients who have had colostomies and other similar procedures, in which a piece of the large intestine or colon is diverted to an opening in the abdominal wall, known as a stoma.

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The front page, as always, was filled with three- and four-line advertisements for Newcastle, Silkstone, or Wall's-End coal, Bailey's elastic stockings, ladies' abdominal belts, Pulvermacher's Patent Galvanic Chain Bands, Antakos corn plasters, Iceland Liniment for chilblains, and "Want Places" appeals from wet nurses, scullery maids, and cooks, each willing to supply testimonials about their skills and finer qualities.

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