title: The shorthand vertical mattress stitch--a rapid skin everting suture technique.
abstract: The shorthand vertical mattress stitch illustrated here provides the same amount of wound eversion in half the time as the classic vertical mattress suture technique.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53792.
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Snow
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Goodman
authors.forename: B N
authors.initials: BN
authors.lastname: Lemke
mesh_terms: D062109:Dermatologic Surgical Procedures; D006801:Humans; D013536:Suture Techniques