Foreign material in postoperative adhesions

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 223, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 242-248

  Luijendijk, R W ^a   De Lange, D C D ^a   Wauters, C C A P ^a   Hop, W C J ^a   Duron, J J ^b   Pailler, J L ^c   Camprodon, B R ^d   Holmdahl, L ^e   Van Geldorp, H J ^a   Jeekel, J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Hop Instruct Armees Val de Grace ^*  (France)

^d HOSPITAL DE L ESPERANÇA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADHESION; ADULT; CONTAMINATION; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SUTURE;

ADHESIONS; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; MALE; OMENTUM; PERITONEAL DISEASES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 9044240869     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199603000-00003     Document Type: Review

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