External sutures are avoided, as these can be a source of discomfort for the rat and predispose to complications at the incision site. An alternative to the intradermal suture is to apply staples ...

For placing the tension suture, an Ethilon suture was first ... the rate at which the study subjects developed postoperative complications. For this purpose, we constructed a series of Kaplan ...

Dissolvable stitches are a type of suture that manufacturers make using ... carefully to reduce the risk of infection and other complications. The most likely complication of having stitches ...