✦ LIBER ✦
Polyvinyl alcohol sponge an inert plastic for use as a prosthesis in the repair of large hernias
✍ Scribed by Theo L. Schofield
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1955
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 494 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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✦ Synopsis
IT is occasionally necessary to use some foreign material to reinforce or replace damaged tissues when repairing large herniae, but the limitations of those in common use at present are well recognized. Foremost of these limitations, and common to all materials such as tantalum gauze, stainless steel mesh, nylon mesh, and polythene film, is failure to become FIG. 771.-A slice of polyvinyl alcohol sponge, showing texture resembling cut surface of a slice of bread.