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(a–c). Pre- and 12-month-postoperative result. (a) shows a 45-year-old patient with multiple scarring and loss of the umbilicus after repeated laparotomies after hemicolectomy, anastomotic leakage, intestine ischemia, and ileus. (b) presents the full frontal and (c) the 45° oblique view 12 months postoperatively. Both the patient and physicians rated the postoperative result as “excellent”. The neo-umbilicus sustained sufficient depth, an appealing shape, and minimal scarring.
