Lightweight meshes: Evaluation of mesh tissue integration and host tissue response

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 289, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1029-1037

  O'Sullivan, O E ^a   Connor, J ^b   O'Reilly, B A ^a  

^a Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research   (Ireland)

^b BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Lightweight meshes; Mesh tissue integration; Polypropylene

Indexed keywords

POLY(GLYCOLIDECOCAPROLACTONE); POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EROSION; GRANULATION TISSUE; GYNECOLOGICAL AND OBSTETRIC PROSTHESIS AND IMPLANT; NONHUMAN; RAT; SURGICAL MESH; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE REACTION;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DERMATOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; INFLAMMATION; POLYESTERS; POLYPROPYLENES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SURGICAL MESH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84900832307     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-013-3093-4     Document Type: Article

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