Whether a midline or transverse incision is used in abdominal surgery depends mainly on the disease, anatomy and potential effects on wound healing, pain and postoperative complications.

Episiotomy is a surgical incision of the perineum ... A median episiotomy is a vertical incision into the midline of the perineum from the posterior fourchette toward the anus.

His first surgery was performed in England in 1991 ... He has had, in addition, intermittent drainage from his previous midline incision. The drainage was non-bilious, serosanguenous fluid ...

For the first time the incision ... "keyhole surgery". But for large operations, the abdomen must still be opened with a long incision. "Whether this incision is transverse or midline depends ...