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ArticleJournal of plastic and reconstructive surgery2025

Staple and Stitch-An Unconventional Application of Noncutting Staples for a Novel Muscle Repair Technique.

Divya Shu Yan Ang, Allen Wei-Jiat Wong, Wan-Sze Pek, Khong-Yik Chew

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Article in Journal of plastic and reconstructive surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Divya Shu Yan AngDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, SingHealth, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Allen Wei-Jiat WongDivision of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Service, SingHealth, Sengkang General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Wan-Sze PekDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, SingHealth, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
Khong-Yik ChewDepartment of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, SingHealth, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.

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Abstract

Muscle repair can be a frustrating endeavor. When stitches are thrown, surgeons frequently experience tearing through the muscle or tendinous substance, which inadvertently causes more bleeding, injury, and poor tissue hold with more unpredictable scarring and fibrosis. A myriad of suturing techniques has been proposed for muscle repair. However, such techniques can be confusing to replicate and are often strangulating to tissues. Our institution presents a novel technique that is easily replicable, minimizes tissue strangulation, and provides a good, reliable foothold to place our stitches without tearing through, which will be detailed in the following paper. The described technique has been performed in our institution over a multitude of cases, most prominently in our experience with abdominal wall reconstruction.

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abdominal wall reconstructioninnovationmuscle approximationmuscle repairnoncutting linear staplereconstruction

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PMID40657171
PMCPMC12240687

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