Tension of knotted surgical sutures shows tissue specific rapid loss in a rodent model
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- 21 December 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Surgery
- Vol. 11 (1) , 36
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-11-36
Abstract
Every surgical suture compresses the enclosed tissue with a tension that depends from the knotting force and the resistance of the tissue. The aim of this study was to identify the dynamic change of applied suture tension with regard to the tissue specific cutting reaction.Keywords
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