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Meshes: Benefits and Risks

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Have We Defeated Hernia Recurrence in the Groin? An Epidemiological Approach
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    Chapter 2 Risk Factors Predisposing for the Development of Incisional Hernias
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    Chapter 3 Expenses and Profits: Economical Aspects of Hernia Surgery
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    Chapter 4 Recurrences: the Fault of the Surgeon
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    Chapter 5 The Fault(s) of the Patient:Scar Reaction and Biological Recurrence
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    Chapter 6 Collagen-the Crucial Cause?
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    Chapter 7 Pharmacotherapy of the Wound -Prevention of Hernia?
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    Chapter 8 Textile Variations and Characteristics of the Plastic Meshes
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    Chapter 9 Polypropylene:the Standard of Mesh Materials
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    Chapter 10 Polyester Mesh - a French Solution?
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    Chapter 11 ePTFE:Worth the Price?
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    Chapter 12 PVDF: a New Alternative?
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    Chapter 13 The World of Mesh
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    Chapter 14 The Abdominal Wall -Where to Place the Mesh?
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    Chapter 15 Pathophysiology and Pathology of the Foreign-Body Reaction to Mesh Implants
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    Chapter 16 Long-term Inertness of Meshes
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    Chapter 17 How to Construct a Mesh? Impact of Structure, Filament and Pore Size for Tissue Ingrowth
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    Chapter 18 Mesh Related Problems - How to Objectify
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    Chapter 19 Shrinkage: Fake or Fact?
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    Chapter 20 The Catastroph: Mesh Infection and Migration with Fistula Formation Life Long Risk?
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    Chapter 21 Prevention of Adhesion - Just an Illusion?
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    Chapter 22 Does the Mesh Damage the Spermatic Cord?
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    Chapter 23 Complaints - Usual Complications of Meshes?
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    Chapter 24 Foreign-Body Carcinogenesis of Surgical Meshes
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    Chapter 25 Mesh Repair in the Groin: for Every Hernia at all Ages?
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    Chapter 26 Mesh Repair in the Abdominal Wall: Are There Mesh-Free Alternatives?
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    Chapter 27 Mesh-Reinforced Repair of Diaphragmatic Hernia
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    Chapter 28 Parastomal Hernia:Prevention and Treatment
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    Chapter 29 Indications for Mesh Repair: Mesh Repair for Laparostomy -an Underestimated Procedure
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    Chapter 30 The Use of Prosthetic Mesh for the Pediatric Hernia Repair
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    Chapter 31 Meshes in Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
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    Chapter 32 Can the Lichtenstein Tension-Free Repair Wipe Out Hernia Recurrence?
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    Chapter 33 Vypro II in Lichtenstein Repair: Risk or Benefit?
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    Chapter 34 TIPP, an additional, alternative or a dispensable technique?
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    Chapter 35 Prolene Hernia System: Quick and Effective Repair for Inguinal Hernia
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    Chapter 36 The Preperitoneal Prosthetic Approach for the Repair of Recurrent Inguinal Hernia: Is There Still a Place for the Wantz Technique?
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    Chapter 37 GPRVS: radical but too invasive ...?
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    Chapter 38 The ≫Grid-Iron≪ repair of groin hernia,a standard procedure?
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    Chapter 39 TEP: for super specialists, not for the general surgeon?
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    Chapter 40 Transperitoneal Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair (TAPP) - an Inferior Method?
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    Chapter 41 Incisional Hernia Prevention
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    Chapter 42 Laparoscopic Ventral and Incisional Hernia Repair: The Texas Endosurgery Institute Experience
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    Chapter 43 Explantation of Meshes as a Routine in Future?
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    Chapter 44 The Ideal Mesh — How Should it Look Like? A Surgical Approach — Open Abdominal Wall
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    Chapter 45 The Ideal Mesh for Abdominal Wall Repair — For Laparoscopic Procedures
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    Chapter 46 Dutch Guidelines for Inguinal Hernia
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    Chapter 47 Panel Discussion: Hernia Therapy in the Groin and for Incisional Hernia
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Title
Meshes: Benefits and Risks
Published by
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, January 2004
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-18720-9
ISBNs
978-3-64-218720-9, 978-3-64-262262-5, 978-3-54-040757-7
Editors

Volker Schumpelick, Lloyd M. Nyhus

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Unknown 18 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 22%
Professor 2 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 6%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 6%
Other 3 17%
Unknown 5 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 44%
Engineering 2 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 6%
Chemistry 1 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 28%