Incisional hernia: Challenge of re-operations after mesh repair

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 392, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 453-457

  Conze, Joachim ^a   Krones, Carsten J ^a   Schumpelick, Volker ^a   Klinge, Uwe ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Incisional hernia; Overlap; Recurrence; Shrinkage; Surgical mesh

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 34250362311     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-006-0065-1     Document Type: Article

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