Removal of surgical barriers of expanded polytetrafluorethylene at second-look laparoscopy was not associated with adhesion formation
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1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Objective:
To evaluate whether the surgical trauma required for the laparoscopic removal of a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) surgical barrier would cause postoperative adhesions.
Design:
Two case reports.
Setting:
Tertiary academic medical center.
Patient(S):
Two women who had undergone myomectomy with placement of a PTFE surgical barrier and who were free of adhesions with the barrier in place.
Intervention(S):
Removal of the PTFE barrier by laparoscopy 11 days after myomectomy.
Main Outcome Measure(S):
Adhesions at the site of removal of the PTFE barrier at the time of incidental laparoscopy several years later.
Result(S):
Adhesions were not present at the site of PTFE barrier removal.
Conclusion(S):
The surgical trauma required to remove PTFE barriers at early second-look laparoscopy was not associated with postoperative adhesions.
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