Prevention of adhesions by Seprafilm, an absorbable adhesion barrier: An incisional hernia model in rats

American Surgeon

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 818-819

  Alponat, Ahmet ^a,b   Lakshminarasappa, Satish R ^a   Yavuz, Nihat ^a   Goh, Peter M Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b Kazim Özalp ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLCELLULOSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCUTANEOUS FISTULA; HERNIOPLASTY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM ADHESION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RAT;

ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; HERNIA, VENTRAL; MALE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; POLYPROPYLENES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 0030876362     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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