title: Critical evaluation of conventional abdominal closure with single-layer closure in adult and elderly.
abstract: Two different techniques of abdominal closure, conventional and single-layer, were studied on comparative basis in 55 cases each. Single-layer closure was found to have definite advantage over conventional closure as regards operating or healing time, feasibility, ease and postoperative morbidity. Single-layer closure took 8-10 minutes in comparison to 18-20 minutes required by conventional method. Incidence of burst abdomen was found to be 3.6% in the former and 7.27% in the latter. In only one case of conventional closure incisional hernia occurred whereas none occurred in case of single-layer closure. Moreover complications of scar and delayed healing were less in single-layer closure.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Banerjee
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D014945:Wound Healing