In vivo studies comparing the biocompatibility of various polypropylene meshes and their handling properties during endoscopic total extraperitoneal (TEP) patchplasty: An experimental study in pigs

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-220

  Scheidbach, H ^a   Tamme, C ^b   Tannapfel, A ^c   Lippert, H ^d   Kockerling F ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Hannover Hospital Siloah   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Biocompatibility; Endoscopic total extrapreperitoneal (TEP) technique; Inguinal hernia repair; Mesh; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; POLYPROPYLENE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UROKINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INGUINAL HERNIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SWINE; TOTAL EXTRAPERITONEAL PATCHPLASTY;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COLLAGEN TYPE I; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 1; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MONOCYTES; POLYPROPYLENES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SWINE; TITANIUM; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 1542376176     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-003-8113-1     Document Type: Article

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