Surgical wounds after bowel cancer surgery on a 65-year-old man. The operation was a form of keyhole surgery using endoscopes inserted into the abdomen (laparoscopy). The incision points are seen here 10 days after the operation, which was a hemicolectomy for bowel carcinoma (removal of part of the colon to treat cancer). For a series of images showing these surgical wounds, see C047/8479 to C047/8482.