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No-drain DIEP Flap Donor-site Closure Using Barbed Progressive Tension Sutures

BACKGROUND: The use of progressive tension sutures has been shown to be comparable to the use of abdominal drains in abdominoplasty. However, the use of barbed progressive tension sutures (B-PTSs) in deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap donor-site closure has not been investigated....

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Autores principales: Nagarkar, Purushottam, Lakhiani, Chrisovalantis, Cheng, Angela, Lee, Michael, Teotia, Sumeet, Saint-Cyr, Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer Health 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27200234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000000049