Vacuum with mesh is a feasible temporary closure device after fascial dehiscence

Danish Medical Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Bjørsum Meyer, Thomas ^a   Skarbye, Mona ^a   Højsgaard Jensen, Kenneth ^b  

^a SLAGELSE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; POLYURETHAN;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FASCIA; FASCIAL DEHISCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL SPONGE; TRACTION THERAPY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND CLOSURE;

ABDOMINAL WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FASCIA; FEMALE; HERNIA, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 84887384078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22451919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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