Suture substitutes: using skin adhesives.
review · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.3810/psm.1998.04.1586.
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Abstract
Cyanoacrylate adhesives offer an attractive alternative to the use of sutures for closing lacerations, especially in sports medicine. Skin adhesives take less time to apply and cause less pain than suturing, and they require no dressing and no needle use-advantages that have obvious value in athletic settings. Further, studies (1,2) indicate that the cost of using tissue adhesives may be only 20% of that of suturing.