This is the Scientific Surgery Archive, which contains all randomized clinical trials in surgery that have been identified by searching the top 50 English language medical journal issues since January 1998. Compiled by Jonothan J. Earnshaw, former Editor-in-Chief, BJS
Purse-string approximation vs. primary closure with a drain for stoma reversal surgery: results of a randomized clinical trial. Surgery Today 2019; 49: 231–237.
Published: 2nd September 2019
Authors: Amamo K, Ishida H, Kumamoto K, Okada N, Hatano S, Chika N et al.
Conclusion
In this study that included 159 patients, more patients had wound healing after 30 days following primary closure (92.4 per cent) than purse-string suture (62.5 per cent); 95 per cent confidence intervals of the difference: 42.9 to 16.9 per cent. Surgical site infection rates were similar.
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