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Surgical wound closure by staples or sutures?: Systematic review.

Giovanni CochettiIosief AbrahaJustus RandolphAlessandro MontedoriAndrea BoniAlberto ArezzoElena MazzaJacopo Adolfo Rossi De VermandoisRoberto CirocchiEttore Mearini
Published in: Medicine (2020)
Due to the lack of high quality evidence, we could not state if sutures are better than staples in terms of wound infection, readmission rate, adverse events, and postoperative pain. With a low quality of evidence, sutures reduce postoperative pain and improve grade of satisfaction with the cosmetic outcome.
Keyphrases
  • postoperative pain
  • systematic review
  • meta analyses
  • surgical site infection
  • wound healing
  • randomized controlled trial