Letter to the editor: Surgical treatment of the open abdomen in patients with abdominal sepsis using the vacuum assisted closure system

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1332-1333

  Perathoner, Alexander ^a   Margreiter, Raimund ^a   Kafka Ritsch, Reinhold ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; OPEN ABDOMEN; OPERATION DURATION; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; FASCIA; INSTRUMENTATION; NOTE; SUTURING METHOD; TIME;

ABDOMINAL WALL; FASCIA; HUMANS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; SEPSIS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67349232325     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-9935-3     Document Type: Letter

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