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. 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 1.
↓  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 2.
↓  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).
Figure 3.