title: Discussion: A Cost-Utility Assessment of Mesh Selection in Clean-Contaminated Ventral Hernia Repair.
authors.affiliation: Chapel Hill, N.C. From the Division of Plastic Surgery, University of North Carolina.
authors.forename: C Scott
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Hultman
mesh_terms: D062088:Acellular Dermis; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000601:surgery*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006555:Hernia, Ventral / Q000601:surgery*; D059685:Herniorrhaphy / Q000191:economics* / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D013526:Surgical Mesh / Q000191:economics*
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