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Wound complications...
Wound complications and stitch length
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- Millbourn, Daniel (author)
- Umeå universitet,Kirurgi
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- Israelsson, Leif A (author)
- Umeå universitet,Kirurgi
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- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2004
- 2004
- English.
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In: Hernia. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1265-4906 .- 1248-9204. ; 8:1, s. 39-41
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- The effect of suturing with a very short stitch on the development of wound complications in midline incisions was investigated. Three hundred sixty-eight patients were analysed. The suture length to wound length ratio and mean stitch length were calculated. Wound infection occurred in 4% (four of 103) of patients sutured with a mean stitch length of less than 4 cm, in 8% (nine of 117) with stitch length 4-4.9 cm, and in 16% (24 of 148) with a longer stitch ( P=0.004). At 12-month follow up, incisional hernia was present in 3% (two of 76) of patients sutured with a mean stitch length of less than 4 cm and in 12% (25 of 215) sutured with a longer stitch ( P=0.043). In midline incisions closed with a suture length to wound length ratio of at least 4, a short stitch is associated with a lower rate of both wound infection and incisional hernia.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Klinisk medicin -- Kirurgi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Clinical Medicine -- Surgery (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Incisional hernia
- Wound healing
- Wound infection
- Suture technique
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- art (subject category)
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