Port‐site hernia: A potentially severe complication of minimally invasive surgery

Abstract

Key Clinical Message Recently, the number of minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) is increasing; however, a specific postoperative complication of MIS such as port‐site hernia needs to be recognized. A persistent postoperative ileus after MIS is rare and such symptoms need to be recognized as a probable sign of a port‐site hernia. Abstract Recently, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) approaches for early endometrial cancer have shown non‐inferior oncologic outcomes with better perioperative morbidity than open approaches. Nevertheless, port‐site hernias are a rare but specific surgical complication of MIS. Knowing the clinical presentation, surgery for port‐site hernias could help clinicians manage this condition.

Keywords

• endometrial cancer
• ileus
• minimally invasive surgery
• port‐site hernia