Preventing intraperitoneal adhesions with atorvastatin and sodium hyaluronate/carboxymethylcellulose: A comparative study in rats

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 118-123

  Lalountas, Miltiadis A ^a   Ballas, Konstantinos D ^a   Skouras, Christos ^a   Asteriou, Christos ^b   Kontoulis, Theodoros ^a   Pissas, Dimitrios ^a   Triantafyllou, Apostolos ^a   Sakantamis, Athanasios K ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Theageneio Cancer Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adhesions; Atorvastatin; Carboxymethylcellulose; Hyaluronate; Rats; Seprafilm

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; HYALURONIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ABRASION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CECUM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERITONEUM ADHESION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEPTANOIC ACIDS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PERITONEAL DISEASES; PYRROLES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE ADHESIONS;

EID: 77955449999     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.06.026     Document Type: Article

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