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  • Title: Skin closure with polyglycolic acid (Dexon).
    Author: MacKinnon AE, Brown S.
    Journal: Postgrad Med J; 1978 Jun; 54(632):384-5. PubMed ID: 28517.
    Abstract:
    Cosmetically satisfactory scars were achieved in 94.5% of skin crease orchidopexy wounds sutured with subcuticular polyglycolic acid. Of twenty-seven similar wounds closed with interrupted black silk sutures 18.5% developed hypertrophy at the medial end.
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