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Prosthetic Materials and Adhesion Formation

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Fibrovascular adhesions are found in 50 to 95% of patients who have undergone open abdominal surgery.1–3 Mechanical trauma, thermal injury, infections, tissue ischemia, and foreign materials are the most important contributing causes of adhesion formation.4 Foreign bodies have been reported in 61 to 69% of postoperative adhesions. In 50 to 68% of cases the foreign material was talc; other materials included sutures, cotton lint, filaments from dressings, starch, extruded gut contents, and prosthetic implants. Combinations of different materials have also been noted (usually talc and thread).2,5

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Annibali, R. (2001). Prosthetic Materials and Adhesion Formation. In: Bendavid, R., Abrahamson, J., Arregui, M.E., Flament, J.B., Phillips, E.H. (eds) Abdominal Wall Hernias. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8574-3_40

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