Incidence and management of abdominal wall defects after intestinal and multivisceral transplantation

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1247-1255

  Carlsen, Brian T ^a   Farmer, Douglas G ^a   Busuttil, Ronald W ^a   Miller, Timothy A ^a   Rudkin, George H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FASCIA; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; RETRANSPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTESTINES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34247634633     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000254401.33682.e9     Document Type: Article

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