Use of polylactide resorbable film as an adhesion barrier

Orthopedics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Welch, William C ^a   Cornwall, G Bryan ^a   Toth, Jeffrey M ^a   Turner, A Simon ^a   Thomas, Kevin A ^a   Gerszten, Peter C ^a   Nemoto, Edwin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BUTORPHANOL; COLLAGEN; DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; GELATIN SPONGE; GELFOAM; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; HYALURONIC ACID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PHENYLBUTAZONE; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYLACTIDE; POLYMER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BEAM THERAPY; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CELL ADHESION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; EPIDURAL SPACE; EXOSTOSIS; FIBROSIS; GEL; HISTOLOGY; LAMINECTOMY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADICULOPATHY; RAT; SCAR FORMATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFT TISSUE; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THICKNESS; TISSUE INJURY;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CICATRIX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LAMINECTOMY; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYESTERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHEEP; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0036805260     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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