Prevention of Polyglycolic Acid-Induced Peritoneal Adhesions Using Alginate in a Rat Model

Figure 1

Adhesion scores in Experiment 1. (a) Extent and (b) severity of adhesion. The columns indicate the mean scores and the bars indicate the standard deviation. The black column shows the scores in the PGA alone group, the gray column shows the scores in the fibrin group, the horizontally striped column shows the scores in the SL group, the mesh pattern column shows the scores in the WL group, and the white column shows the scores in the NL group. values < 0.05 are marked by an asterisk (), those <0.01 are marked by double asterisks (), and those <0.001 are marked by triple asterisks ().

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