The advantages of direct defect closure over skin grafting or flaps are both obvious and well documented. There is no additional scarring, no donor site, and as only local skin is used, the tissue ...

Sutures are medical tools used by doctors and surgeons to close a wound. Depending on your condition, a doctor will use the proper suture technique and material to stitch a wound or laceration shut.

A barbed suture is a self-anchoring knotless suture hypothesized to shorten suture time and reduce the tension point of the wound. The purpose of this study was to compare the barbed suture and the ...