Clinical assessment, radiographic imaging, and patient self-report for abdominal wall hernias.

Background: Increasingly, abdominal wall hernias are being diagnosed incidentally through radiographic imaging. Such hernias are referred to as occult. However, the clinical significance of occult hernias is unknown.

Component separation for complex congenital abdominal wall defects: not just for adults anymore.

Purpose: Operative repair of large abdominal wall defects in infants and children can be challenging. Component separation technique (CST) is utilized in adults to repair large abdominal wall defects but rarely used in children. The purpose of this report is to describe our experience with the CST in pediatric patients including the first description of CST use in newborns.