Aim. Comparison of the rate of wound complications, pain, and patient satisfaction based on used subcuticular suture material. Methods. A total of 250 consecutive women undergoing primary and repeat cesarean section with low transverse incision were prospectively included. The primary outcome was wound complication rate including infection, dehiscence, hematoma, and hypertrophic scar formation ...

Background: Sutures are used to keep tissues in place until enough healing has taken produce endogenous wound strength. The method of closure should be quick, simple, affordable, and successful while maximizing the cosmetic patient outcomes. So, this study was an attempt compare subcuticular vertical mattress suture techniques inguinal hernia repair. Methods: A prospective carried out among pat...

Closure of skin incisions has received scant attention in the transplant literature. Yet, wound healing can be an important source of morbidity after transplantation. Recently, a novel form of skin closure utilizing absorbable subcuticular staples has become available. It was used in 26 live-related and deceased donor kidney transplant recipients. A large (no. 1) continuous absorbable suture wi...

PURPOSE In this study, we compared the skin adhesive 2-octylcyanoacrylate to subcuticular suture for closure of pediatric inguinal hernia incisions to determine if skin adhesive improves wound cosmesis, shortens skin closure time, and lowers operative costs. METHODS We prospectively randomized 134 children undergoing inguinal herniorrhaphy at our institution to have skin closure with either s...

Dear Editors, Adhesive strips are a fundamental device to achieve better wound closure, sometimes avoiding superficial sutures. Time-effective removal, easy application and early detection of infections are the key points to fulfill. An easy manner to achieve those goals is herein presented. As stated in a paper by Katz et al., steri strips are used in a number of settings: for adjunctive wound...

Absorbable sutures are in use for more than 30 years. Tissue reactions which might be associated with suture material have rarely been reported in the past. After a long period without complications caused by suture material we observed 12 cases of unexpected tissue reactions after clean operations. Our patients 3-8 weeks after uneventful elective clean operations (varicose vein, hernia, benign...