Can we still have a clear conscience, routinely offering vaginal mesh operations in plastic and reconstructive surgery of the pelvic organ prolapse?

Introduction: Since many years, plastic and reconstructive surgery in pelvic organ prolapse (POP) has been performed by vaginal mesh surgery. Although warnings from the scientific societies and the FDA have been published, vaginal mesh surgery still remains a routine treatment of genital prolapse in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Larbig, Angelika, de Wilde, Rudy Leon
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2014-03-01
Series:GMS Interdisciplinary Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery DGPW
Online Access:http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/iprs/2014-3/iprs000044.shtml