The role of suture material in hypertrophic scar formation: Monocryl vs. Vicryl-rapide

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 254-260

  Niessen, Frank B ^a   Spauwen, Paul H M ^b   Kon, Moshe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE; SUTURE MATERIAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST REDUCTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; KELOID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN INCISION; TISSUE REACTION; WOUND HEALING;

ABSCESS; BREAST; CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; DIOXANES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; KELOID; MAMMAPLASTY; POLYESTERS; POLYGLACTIN 910; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030807429     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199709000-00006     Document Type: Article

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