The efficacy of a hyaluronate/carboxymethylcellulose membrane in prevention of postoperative adhesion in a rat uterine horn model

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 204, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 189-194

  Kelekci, Sefa ^c,d   Yilmaz, Bulent ^c   Oguz, Serdar ^c   Zergeroǧlu, Sema ^a   Inan, Ismet ^b   Tokucoǧlu, Selma ^b  

^a Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Ankara Education Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^c Etlik Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^d Sakarya Mahallesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Barrier methods; Hyaluronate carboxymethylcellulose membrane; Pelvic surgery

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; HYALURONIC ACID;

ADHESION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LAPAROTOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UTERUS HORN; VASCULARIZATION;

ADHESIONS; ANIMALS; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HYALURONIC ACID; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UTERUS;

EID: 10244225334     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.204.189     Document Type: Article

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