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From: Successful closure of a large abdominal wall defect using endoscopic component separation technique in an infant with a giant ventral hernia after staged surgery for omphalocele

Fig. 2

Endoscopic view and a schema of the space between the external and internal oblique muscles. The aponeurosis (\(\ast\)) was identified as the white line, just medial to the external oblique muscle (➤) and running vertically from the epigastrium to the inguinal ligament. Transection of the aponeurosis was carried by the electrocautery (➡)

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