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Table 2 Adhesion Score (Bigatti's method):

From: Administration of a novel penicillamine-bound membrane: a preventive and therapeutic treatment for abdominal adhesions

Characteristic

Adhesion Score

Tenacity

 

None

0

Adhesions essentially fell apart

1

Adhesions lysed with traction

2

Adhesions required sharp dissection

3

Type

 

None

0

Filmy, no vessels (transparent)

1

Dense, no vessels (translucent)

2

Dense, vascular, small vessels (diameter 50 μm)

3

Dense, vascular, large vessels (diameter 50-110 μm)

4

Extent (% of SILASTIC patch surface covered by adhesions)

 

0

0

< 25

1

25-50

2

50-75

3

> 75

4