Interrupted or continuous slowly absorbable sutures for closure of primary elective midline abdominal incisions: A multicenter randomized trial (INSECT: ISRCTN24023541)

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 249, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 576-582

  Seiler, Christoph M ^a   Bruckner, Thomas ^a   Diener, Markus K ^a   Papyan, Armine ^b   Golcher, Henriette ^c   Seidlmayer, Christoph ^d   Franck, Annette ^e   Kieser, Meinhard ^a   Büchler, Markus W ^a   Knaebel, Hanns Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d ST BONIFATIUS HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^f B Braun Melsungen AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE; POLYDIOXANONE; POLYGLACTIN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; INCISIONAL HERNIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION; ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CATGUT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL INFECTION; SUTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ABDOMEN; ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; AGED; CATGUT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAPAROTOMY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 65449132471     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31819ec6c8     Document Type: Article

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