Gloved hands apply a new gauze dressing over a dehisced (opened) laparotomy wound on the abdomen in an 81 year old female patient after surgery for a

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Gloved hands apply a new gauze dressing over a dehisced (opened) laparotomy wound on the abdomen in an 81 year old female patient after surgery for a diverticular abscess. (See 7 images in which this gauze dressing is replaced).

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