Review of wound healing with reference to an unrepairable abdominal hernia.
A 58-year-old man has been under our care with an inguinal hernia that has recurred 8 times. This stimulated us to review the biochemistry of wound repair. We studied the composition of his collagen and tried to find out whether it was intrinsically faulty or whether its fault had been caused by the medication he was taken.
Department of Surgery, RWTH Aachen, Germany. mail@kjunge.de
Karsten
K
Junge
Uwe
U
Klinge
Bernd
B
Klosterhalfen
Raphael
R
Rosch
Michael
M
Stumpf
Volker
V
Schumpelick
D034861:Abdominal Wall / Q000473:pathology; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006555:Hernia, Ventral / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D013526:Surgical Mesh; D013536:Suture Techniques; D017211:Treatment Failure; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology