{"doi":"10.1016/j.ijscr.2020.06.034","title":"Management of a nine litre abdominal wall seroma post ventral hernia repairs","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Introduction</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>seromas are a common and challenging complication post mesh hernia repairs (Morales-Conde, 2012; Salamone, 2015; Vasilakis, 2014).</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Presentation of case</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A 52-year-old male was referred to General Surgery with a large abdominal mass in the setting of morbid obesity and multiple abdominal operations culminating in a ventral hernia repair seven years prior. He had no other abdominal symptoms or malignancy red flags. Imaging demonstrated a large, complex anterior abdominal wall seroma of 40 × 25 × 20 cm. No seromas of this size and location have been reported in the literature.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Surgical management required drainage, partial capsulectomy and scarification of the remnants with multidisciplinary team involvement for recovery including general surgeons, anaesthesia, intensivists and allied health professionals.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The patient recovered well from his operation.</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Highlights</jats:title>\n                  </jats:sec>","journal":"International Journal of Surgery Case Reports","year":2020,"id":662747,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":839394,"name":"Parveen Kumar","orcid":"0000-0003-2739-273X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1730258,"name":"Kim Goddard","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1730257,"name":"Danika Jurat","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Management of a nine litre abdominal wall seroma post ventral hernia repairs","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Introduction</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>seromas are a common and challenging complication post mesh hernia repairs (Morales-Conde, 2012; Salamone, 2015; Vasilakis, 2014).</jats:p>\n                  </jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Presentation of case</jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A 52-year-old male was referred to General Surgery with a large abdominal mass in the setting of morbid obesity and multiple abdominal operations culminating in a ventral hernia repair seven years prior. 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