Surgical sutures and infection: A biomat
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Edlich, Richard F. ;Panek, Patricia H. ;Rodeheaver, George T. ;Kurtz, Leonard D.
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Article
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1974
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract A standardized readily reproducible experimental model has been developed to assess the relative importance of the chemical and physical configuration of sutures as determinants of early infection in contaminated wounds. The chemical structure of the suture appeared to be the most impor