Definitive Surgical Treatment of Infected or Exposed Ventral Hernia Mesh

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 437-441

  Szczerba, Steven R ^a   Dumanian, Gregory A ^b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Div of Plast and Reconstr Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVISCERATION; EXCISION; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HERNIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND CARE; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FISTULA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; SKIN FISTULA; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL FISTULA; INTESTINES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 0037362818     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200303000-00020     Document Type: Article

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