Changes in knot-holding capacity of sliding knots in vivo and tissue reaction

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 727-734

  Babetty, Zeina ^a   Sümer, Aykut ^a   Altintaş, Sabri ^a   Ergüney, Sabri ^b   Göksel, Süha ^b  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NYLON; SUTURE MATERIAL;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SILK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE REACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 2642674431     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.133.7.727     Document Type: Article

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