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General Surgery

Suturing – split thickness and corner stitch

Split thickness

Using split thickness bites creates very cosmetic skin closures.

demonstration of difference full thickness  (left) vs partial thickness (right)

Corner bites

Corner bites are a split thickness version that helps preserve vascular supply

demonstration of corner bite

The buried horizontal suture

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