Fishing Line Suture: Cost-saving Alternative for Atraumatic Intracutaneous Skin Closure - Randomized Clinical Trial in Rwanda

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 421-424

  Freudenberg, Sebastian ^a,b,d   Nyonde, Martin ^a   Mkony, Charles ^c   Bay, Fatma ^b   Wilhelm, Torsten ^b   Post, Stefan ^b  

^a Universite Nationale de Rwanda   (Rwanda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NYLON;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; FISHING LINE SUTURE; HUMAN; LIFE; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NYLONS; PRIVATE SECTOR; RWANDA; SKIN; SUTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1942476541     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7323-y     Document Type: Article

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