Simple interrupted percutaneous suture versus intradermal running suture for wound tensile strength measurement in rats: A technical note

European Surgical Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-65

  Gal P ^a,b,d   Toporcer, T ^a,b   Vidinsky B ^a   Hudak R ^c   Ivak J ^c   Sabo, J ^a  

^a Department of Medical Biophysics ^*  (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KO ICE   (Slovakia)

^d East Slovak Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Skin suture; Sprague Dawley rats; Tensile strength measurement; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN INCISION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND;

ANIMALS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 65649152672     PISSN: 0014312X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000219214     Document Type: Article

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