A comparison of suture repair with mesh repair for incisional hernia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 343, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 392-398

  Luijendijk, Roland W ^a   Hop, Wim C J ^b   Van Den Tol, M Petrousjka ^c   De Lange, Diederik C D ^c   Braaksma, Marijel M J ^c   IJzermans, Jan N M ^c   Boelhouwer, Roelof U ^d   De Vries, Bas C ^e   Salu, Marc K M ^f   Wereldsma, Jack C J ^g   Bruijninckx, Cornelis M A ^h   Jeekel, Johannes ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d IKAZIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^f Zuiderziekenhuis   (Netherlands)

^g SINT FRANCISCUS GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^h LEYENBURG HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYPROPYLENES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURES;

EID: 0034632866     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200008103430603     Document Type: Article

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