Giant omphalocele treated by staged operation and successive conservative therapy using artificial dermis (Terudermis®) for effective epithelization

• Main Authors: Yutaka Kanamori (Author), Kazunori Tahara (Author), Mai Kutsukake (Author), Yohei Yamada (Author), Teizaburo Mori (Author), Yumi Kudo (Author), Kazue Miyake (Author), Takuro Fujita (Author), Akihiro Fujino (Author), Yu Abiko (Author), Kana Fukui (Author), Yuka Wada (Author), Yushi Ito (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A giant omphalocele was successfully treated with a two-step procedure. The first step was a three-staged operation with Gore-tex® sheet to elongate the abdominal muscular layer, and the second step was conservative treatment using the artificial dermis (Terudermis®) to attain effective epithelizati...