The safety and efficacy of prosthetic hernia repair in clean-contaminated and contaminated wounds

American Surgeon

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 524-528

  Kelly, Michael E ^a   Behrman, Stephen W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENTEROSTOMY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MESH PROSTHESIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROSTHESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL STAPLING; WOUND INFECTION; ARTICLE; HERNIA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036594405     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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