Prospective randomized trial of clips versus subcuticular polydioxanone for neck wound closure

✍ Scribed by M. R. Reed; Mr T. W. J. Lennard

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 107 KB
• Volume: 84
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800840142

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Seventy-three questionnaires were returned, of which 68 were assessable: 34 for polydioxanone and 34 for clips.

Pain score and length of stay (from hospital computer records) were compared with the two-sample t test. Cosmetic score results were not normally distributed (skewed towards a good result), so these were evaluated using the Mann-Whitney U test.