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General Medicine

Purse-String Suture Closure

E. J. Mayeaux, Jr, MD, DABFP, FAAFP


Introduction

The purse-string suture can be used to provide complete or partial closure of round skin defects. This running suture is placed horizontally in the dermis. Skin from the entire periphery ...

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