[The bovine pericardium for closing abdominal wall defects].

A preparation procedure by making of biologic implants in their biologic texture was investigated in using closures of abdominal wall defects. Defects of the ventral trunk wall of 10 to 20 cm dimension were closed with a collagen implant of the equal size. The morphologic investigation was carried out after 12 respectively 24 months. The kind of the immigrated cells, the revascularisation, and the integration of the implants were criteria for the reutilization. Exclusive fibrocytes with regular cell density in the whole implant were provable after 12 months. The revascularization was demonstrable by numerous vessels and capillaries. The light-histologic findings were unchanged after 24 months, a distinction between implant and surrounding tissue was possible only in an electro-optical way.