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From: Multidetector CT of expected findings and early postoperative complications after current techniques for ventral hernia repair

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Usual imaging appearance of polypropylene (PP) prosthetic mesh (PM) in a 72-year-old male, two weeks after uncomplicated open repair (Rives-Stoppa technique) of a large ventral incisional hernia. On sagittal (a) and axial (b) post-contrast CT images, a thin structure (thin arrows) with soft-tissue attenuation is identified at the deep aspect of the atrophic rectus abdominis muscles (+), which corresponds to the PP PM interposed between the parietal peritoneum and muscle sheath. Asymptomatic adhesion of the caudalmost portion of the PM to the urinary bladder (thick arrow in A) was incidentally noted

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