Five-year results of a randomised controlled multi-centre study comparing heavy-weight knitted versus low-weight, non-woven polypropylene implants in Lichtenstein hernioplasty

Hernia

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 495-501

  Smietanski M ^a,b   Bury, K ^a   Smietanska I A ^a   Owczuk, R ^a   Paradowski, T ^c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b Department of Surgery   (Poland)

^c Regional Hospital in Bydgoszcz   (Poland)

Author keywords

Inguinal hernia; Lichtenstein; Lightweight mesh; Surgimesh WN

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FOLLOW UP; HEAVY WEIGHT NON WOVEN POLYPROPYLENE IMPLANT; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LICHTENSTEIN INGUINAL HERNIOPLASTY; LOW WEIGHT NON WOVEN POLYPROPYLENE IMPLANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL MESH; WEIGHT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HERNIORRHAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POLYPROPYLENES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL MESH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855486448     PISSN: 12654906     EISSN: 12489204     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10029-011-0808-y     Document Type: Article

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