Current practice of abdominal wall closure in elective surgery ? Is there any consensus?

BMC Surgery

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Rahbari, Nuh N ^a   Knebel, Phillip ^a   Diener, Markus K ^a   Seidlmayer, Christoph ^b   Ridwelski, Karsten ^c   Stöltzing, Hartmut ^d   Seiler, Christoph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b St Bonifatius Krankenhaus   (Germany)

^c Städtisches Klinikum   (Germany)

^d ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE;

ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSENSUS; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DRAIN; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FASCIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SKIN INCISION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WARD; SUTURE; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; INCIDENCE; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; SUTURING METHOD;

ABDOMINAL WALL; CONSENSUS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 66649107195     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-8     Document Type: Article

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