Mesh augmentation during pelvic-floor reconstructive surgery: Risks and benefits

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 560-566

  Baessler, Kaven ^a   Maher, Christopher F ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Royal Women's and Mater Hospitals Brisbane   (Australia)

Author keywords

Erosion; Nonabsorbable implants; Pelvic floor surgery; Pelvic organ prolapse; Stress urinary incontinence; Synthetic mesh

Indexed keywords

CD20 ANTIBODY; POLYPROPYLENE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CYSTOCELE; DYSPAREUNIA; ELASTICITY; GRAFT REJECTION; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMPLANT; LIGAMENT; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; PAIN; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS FLOOR; PELVIS SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOCELE; REVIEW; STRESS INCONTINENCE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PELVIC FLOOR; POLYPROPYLENES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY INCONTINENCE, STRESS; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 33748283938     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gco.0000242961.48114.b0     Document Type: Review

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