An Objective Comparison of Holding, Slippage, and Pull-Out Tensions for Eight Suspension Sutures in the Malar Fat Pads of Fresh-Frozen Human Cadavers

Aesthetic Surgery Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 387-396

  Sasaki, Gordon H ^a   Komorowska Timek, Eva D ^a   Bennett, Della C ^a   Gabriel, Allen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF; POLYDIAXANONE; POLYPROPYLENE; SUTURE MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CHEEK; DEVICE; ELASTICITY; FROZEN SECTION; HOLDING TENSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULL OUT TENSION; SLIPPAGE TENSION; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SUSPENSION SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; TENSIOMETER; ZYGOMA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CADAVER; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; POLYDIOXANONE; POLYPROPYLENES; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH; ZYGOMA;

EID: 47649083796     PISSN: 1090820X     EISSN: 1527330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asj.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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