When confronting a massive incisional hernia, a surgeon needs to know not only the particulars of the case before him, but also the characteristics and hazards of this class of disorder. A postoperative incisional hernia cannot be understood simply as a hole in an abdominal wall in need of suturing, but rather as a condition that Jean Rives identified in 1973 as ``incisional hernia disease.'' The implication is that the hernia itself is but one of many manifestations of that disease.
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Trivellini, G., & Danelli, P. (2001). Respiratory Pathophysiology and Giant Incisional Hernias. In Abdominal Wall Hernias (pp. 166–172). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8574-3_21
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