A CASE OF COLON CANCER RECURRENCE IN ABDOMINAL WALL REPAIRED WITH COMPOSIX KUGEL PATCH^®

Abstract

The present case was a 72-year-old female with colon cancer recurrence in the abdominal wall who had earlier undergone hemicolectomy for transverse colon cancer. For this recurrence, a large defect of the abdominal wall was repaired using a Composix Kugel Patch^®. The size of the patch was 34.9 cm wide and 27.4 cm long. The repair technique was simple with no use of plastic surgery. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient left the hospital three weeks after the operation. We think that the present method using a Composix Kugel Patch^® is very useful for repairing a large defect of the abdominal wall.