Influence of a new self-gripping hernia mesh on male fertility in a rat model

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 455-461

  Kolbe, Thomas ^a   Hollinsky, Christian ^b   Walter, Ingrid ^c   Joachim, Anja ^c   Rülicke, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ductus deferens; Laparoscopic inguinal herniorrhaphy; Mesh fixation; Parietene progrip; Rat model

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GIANT CELL; IMPLANTATION; INGUINAL HERNIA; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MESH SLING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURFACE PROPERTY; SUTURING METHOD; VAS DEFERENS;

EID: 77649192264     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0596-y     Document Type: Article

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