Jms Co., Ltd.

Gunze Limited

Japan Medical Supply Co., Ltd.

Hideki Tadokoro

Yoshito Ikada

Shokyu Gen

Yasuhiko Shimizu

Tatsuo Nakamura

Shojiro Matsuda

Yoshimi Tanaka

Koichi Tamura

Tsuneo Cho

Hitoshi Ohtani

Sosuke Kimura

Kazuaki Hori

A medical film that is excellent in biocompatibility and bioabsorbability and has an excellent strength in suturing and bonding is provided. A reinforcing materialmade of a biodegradable polymer is placed in a gelatin solution so as to allow the solution to infiltrate in the reinforcing materialand then the gelatin is dried. This allows the gelatin that has infiltrated entirely in an internal part of the reinforcing materialto gel, thereby forming a gelatin film. Thus, a medical filmin which the reinforcing materialand the gelatin filmare integrated is obtained. The gelatin filmpreferably is a cross-linked gelatin film.

Medical film

An adhesion preventive for preventing adhesion between vital tissues is provided. The present adhesion preventive is a molded material consisting essentially of a biodegradable and absorbable polymer. It has an advantage of requiring no reoperation for its removal since it would be degraded and absorbed after completing its function in vivo.

Use of molded polymeric material for preventing adhesion of vital tissues

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Hiroshima, Japan

Hideki Tadokoro