The use of a subfascial Vicryl mesh buttress to aid in the closure of massive ventral hernias following damage-control laparotomy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 766-776

  Tobias, Adam M ^a   Low, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARLEX; POLYGLACTIN;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FASCIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; FEMALE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYGLACTIN 910; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0042475346     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000070175.10990.51     Document Type: Article

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