A historically controlled, single-arm, multi-centre, prospective trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of MonoMax® suture material for abdominal wall closure after primary midline laparotomy. ISSAAC-Trial [NCT005725079]

BMC Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fischer, Lars ^a   Baumann, Petra ^b   Hüsing, Johannes ^a   Seidlmayer, Christoph ^c   Albertsmeier, Markus ^d   Franck, Annette ^e   Luntz, Steffen ^a   Seiler, Christoph M ^a   Knaebel, Hanns Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b B Braun Melsungen AG   (Germany)

^c ST BONIFATIUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYDIOXANONE; SUTURE MATERIAL;

ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BURST ABDOMEN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD;

ABDOMINAL WALL; FEMALE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES;

EID: 48749083211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-8-12     Document Type: Article

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