What is the difference between a ventral hernia and umbilical?

February 13, 2019
Asked By:greyghost in New York, New York

My surgeon destroyed my belly button repairing a small ventral umbilical hernia. I'm very upset; he said he would make a small incision and repair it "with one stitch" but my made my torso short and fat and the back pain I'm feeling 1 mth after surgery is much worse, plus the pain from the sutures in my umbilicus. Why didn't he make a ventral incision?

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February 14, 2019

Answer: What is the difference between a ventral hernia and umbilical?

February 14, 2019

Answer: What is the difference between a ventral hernia and umbilical?

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