Ventral hernia repair with simultaneous panniculectomy

American Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 678-681

  Hughes, Kent C ^b   Weider, Laurence ^a   Fischer, John ^a   Hopkins, Jeffrey ^a   Antonetti, Alfred ^a   Manders, Ernest K ^b   Dunn, Ernest ^a  

^a METHODIST DALLAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ABDOMINOPLASTY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELLULITIS; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LIPECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEROMA; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND HEALING;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030037012     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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