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Can any wound be sutured?
Not necessarily.
Here are some examples that aren't good candidates for closing with sutures:
A wound that is much wider than it is deep-- a bad road rash abrasion, for example.
A wound with ...
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Suture types (layman question)
I am not familiar with the particular media you have referenced, but there are many suture techniques that have been taught to generations of medical students from Ethicon (a manufacturer of sutures) ...
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Allergy to Vicryl Sutures
Sure, it could be an allergy to vicryl, but if it wasn't itchy, it probably wasn't. You probably saw some granulation tissue, normal in healing, expecially visible if you're poking around in an ...
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How does a skull mend after a surgery?
The article you cited answers your question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniotomy
The amount of skull that needs to be removed depends on the type of
surgery being performed. The bone flap ...
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Allergy to Vicryl Sutures
Vicryl takes many weeks to hydrolyze and absorb (56-70 days per Ethicon data), and in the process it can generate a foreign body reaction from the body. The body does one of two things for foreign ...
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