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A new running-locking loop suture technique has been developed to increase tendon
repair strength and to provide better tendon edge inversion. Biomechanical analysis
documented the failure mechanism and the failure strength of various circumferential
repair techniques. When compared with two well-known techniques, the simple circumferential
running suture and Lembert running suture, the locking suture technique was shown
to have 3.77 and 1.68 times greater tensile failure strength and 1.73 and 1.26 times
greater stiffness than these traditional suture methods. A running peripheral locking
suture may help augment the strength of tendon repair.
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Publication history
Accepted:
November 6,
1987
Received:
August 7,
1987
Footnotes
*This study was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant AR 17172.
**No benefits in any form have been received or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this article.
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© 1988 American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
