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A COMPARISON OF THE INCIDENCE OF WOUND INFECTION FOLLOWING THE USE OF PERCUTANEOUS AND SUBCUTICULAR SUTURES: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Author(s) -
Polglase A.,
Nayman J.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1977.tb04318.x
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous , surgery , wound infection , incidence (geometry) , infection rate , optics , physics
This is a study in which the results have shown that the use of subcuticular sutures in the pig is associated with a lower rate of wound infection when compared with that following percutaneous sutures.