Smoking is a risk factor for incisional hernia

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 119-123

  Sørensen, Lars Tue ^a,b   Hemmingsen, Ulla B ^a   Kirkeby, Lene T ^a   Kallehave, Finn ^a   Jørgensen, Lars Nannestad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INGUINAL HERNIA; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; FEMALE; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 13644251491     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.2.119     Document Type: Article

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