Mark A. Franke

An Obturation Technique for Closure of Body Wall Defects

David Y. Johnson, Mark A. Franke, Nancy J. Phillips & Frank E. Johnson · Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research · 2015

Aims: In the vast majority of instances, closure of abdominal wall defects relies on the tensile strength of transposed native tissue and/or prosthetic material. The purpose of this report is to alert clinicians to a different strategy for closure that we have used successfully o...