Complex abdominal wall hernias: A new classification system and approach to management based on review of 133 consecutive patients

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 497-503

  Hadeed, Josef G ^a   Walsh, Mark D ^a   Pappas, Theodore N ^a   Pestana, Ivo A ^a   Tyler, Douglas S ^a   Levinson, Howard ^a   Mantyh, Christopher ^a   Jacobs, Danny O ^a   Lagoo Deenadalayan, Sandhya A ^a   Erdmann, Detlev ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

abdominal wall reconstruction; complex abdominal wall reconstruction; complex hernias; Hernia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL MESH; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955059399     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3182145387     Document Type: Conference Paper

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