Buried tension sutures: Force-tension comparisons of pulley, double butterfly, mattress, and simple interrupted suture patterns

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-48

  Austin, Brenda R ^a   Henderson, Ralph A ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; SURGERY; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33644915031     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: 1532950X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-950X.2005.00110.x     Document Type: Article

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