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The Cornered Incision - A Precision Cataract Wound

Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and Imaging Retina, 1983
SUMMARY One hundred fifty-four patients underwent cataract extraction by using a new cornered incision. Closure with 10-0 nylon under keratometric control with the Terry surgical keratometer allowed 79% of patients to have 1.50 or less diopters of residual corneal astigmatism at two months without suture cutting. The cornered incision allowed
R T, Torchia, R W, McCarthy
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Skin incisions and wound closure

Surgery (Oxford), 2011
Abstract The siting of an incision and the choice of wound closure may have profound effects upon the success of an operation and the patients lasting perception of their surgeon. This article discusses site and method of skin incision, access to the abdominal cavity, wound healing, choice of sutures and needles, suture techniques, fascial and skin ...
Jon Armitage, Sonia Lockwood
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The Incised Wound

2004
A wound is defined as an injury to the surface of the body, “caused by a cut, blow, hard or sharp impact etc., especially one in which the skin is cut or broken; an external injury.”1. In practice, to the medical practitioner, the terms wound and injury are synonymous but strictly the legal definition of a wound involves breaking of the full thickness ...
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INCISED WOUNDS OF THE HEAD INFLICTED BY BAYONETS

Archives of Surgery, 1947
A REVIEW of recent and older medical literature discloses that the occurrence of bayonet wounds of the head is rather infrequent if not rare. I had an opportunity to observe and treat 5 patients who had penetrating craniocerebral wounds incurred with bayonets.
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