The use of intra-SMAS absorbable barbed sutures to reinforce a high-vector pull during rhytidectomy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Prado, Arturo ^a   Andrades, Patricio ^a   Fuentes, Patricio ^a   Eulufi, Alex ^a   Cuadra, Alvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE; POLYDIOXANONE; POLYGLACTIN; POLYMER;

CANNULA; CHEEK; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FORCEPS; HUMAN; INFECTION; LETTER; MANDIBLE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NECK; NEEDLE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROMA; PAIN; PLATYSMA MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WOUND HEALING; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVIEW; SKIN; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD;

HUMANS; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SKIN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURGICAL FLAPS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES;

EID: 58149385001     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31818d2233     Document Type: Letter

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