Long-term follow-up of a randomized controlled trial of suture versus mesh repair of incisional hernia

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 240, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 578-585

  Burger, Jacobus W A ^a,c   Luijendijk, Roland W ^b   Hop, Wim C J ^a   Halm, Jens A ^a   Verdaasdonk, Emiel G G ^a   Jeekel, Johannes ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^c   Lucas, Charles E ^c   Pellegrini, Carlos A ^c   Easter, David W ^c   Fischer, Josef E ^c   Mathes, Stephen J ^c   Way, Lawrence W ^c   Debas, Haile T ^c   Jones, R Scott ^c  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLACTIN; POLYPROPYLENE;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MESH REPAIR; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SCAR; SUTURING METHOD; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CICATRIX; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYPROPYLENES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURES;

EID: 4644286793     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000141193.08524.e7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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