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Adhesion as a Chronic Inflammatory Problem? Risk for Adhesions, Migration, and Erosions?

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Hernia Repair Sequelae

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Peritoneal adhesions are common and develop postoperatively in more than 90% of patients following abdominal surgery. Most adhesions are not symptomatic, however. Even years after surgery, adhesions can lead to undesirable outcomes such as small bowel obstruction, infertility, abdominopelvic pain, and difficult reoperative procedures [1–3]. In addition, adhesions have a substantial impact on the national health economy. In a current Swedish survey, the annual cost of adhesion-related problems was estimated to be ∈39.9–59.5 million, and the cost of inpatient readmissions was almost equal to that for gastric cancer [4].

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Binnebösel, M. et al. (2010). Adhesion as a Chronic Inflammatory Problem? Risk for Adhesions, Migration, and Erosions?. In: Schumpelick, V., Fitzgibbons, R.J. (eds) Hernia Repair Sequelae. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11541-7_42

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