摘要
SURGICAL mesh is a metallic or polymeric screen intended to be implanted to reinforce soft tissue or bone where weakness exists. Surgical mesh has been used since the 1950s to repairabdominal hernias. In the using surgical mesh products 1970s, gynecologists began to indicate the repair of pelvic organ prolapse （POP）, and in the 1990s, gynecologists began using surgical mesh for POP. Then the U.S. Food andDrug Administration （FDA） approved the first surgical mesh product specifically for use in POP.
