World Journal of Oncology, ISSN 1920-4531 print, 1920-454X online, Open Access
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Original Article

Volume 16, Number 5, October 2025, pages 525-529

A Comparison of Bidirectional Stratafix Continuous Suture Versus Conventional Interrupted Suture in Breast Mastectomy

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1. The difference of the time required for wound closure between C-group and S-group in cases undergoing total mastectomy with sentinel lymph node biopsy. (a) Boxplots showed a comparison of total operation time between C-group and S-group. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to calculate P value. (b) Pie chart showed the percentage of suturing time within the total operative time for each group.
Figure 2.
Figure 2. The difference in wound closure times of wound length between the C-group (blue) and S-group (orange). (a) Bar graph showing the time required for wound closure of 15 cm in each patient. (b) Boxplots of comparing the time required for 15-cm wound closure between the C-group and S-group. Mann-Whitney U test was used to calculate P value.
Figure 3.
Figure 3. The relationship between wound length and closure time per 1-cm wound in both groups. Dot plots showed the correlation between actual wound length and wound closure time to 1-cm for each patient by C-group (blue) and S-group (orange).