Twelve-year experience with expanded polytetrafluoroethylene in the repair of abdominal wall defects

Keyphrases

• Abdominal Wall Defect 100%
• Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) 100%
• Polytetrafluoroethylene Patch 50%
• Anterior Abdominal Wall Defect 50%
• Open Repair 33%
• Fistula 33%
• Ventral Hernia Repair 33%
• In(III) 16%
• Histologic 16%
• No Complication 16%
• Operative 16%
• Operative Complications 16%
• Clinical Experience 16%
• Histologic Study 16%
• Adhesion 16%
• Explantation 16%
• Prosthesis 16%
• Fibrous Tissue 16%
• Viscera 16%
• Prosthetic Material 16%
• Onlay 16%
• Full-thickness 16%
• Surgical Practice 16%
• Seroma 16%
• Primary Closure 16%
• Synthetic Patch 16%
• Bowel Obstruction 16%
• Acceptable Limits 16%
• Clinical Infections 16%
• Tension-free 16%
• Prosthetic Devices 16%
• Ventral Hernia 16%
• Recurrent Hernia 16%
• Reherniation 16%
• Foreign Body Reaction 16%
• Rives-Stoppa 16%
• Tissue Ingrowth 16%
• Insufficient Tissue 16%
• Polytetrafluoroethylene Implants 16%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Politef 100%
• Abdominal Wall Defect 100%
• Infection 50%
• Ventral Hernia Repair 50%
• Fistula 33%
• Prosthetics 33%
• Prosthesis 33%
• Surgery 16%
• Operative Complication 16%
• Histology 16%
• Viscera 16%
• Foreign Body 16%
• Bowel Obstruction 16%
• Seroma 16%
• Hernia 16%