title: How a lone surgeon may secure satisfactory traction on the skin during incision.
abstract: A technique is described and illustrated of how a surgeon working by himself may use the fingers of his free hand to provide what an assistant ordinarily does by way of supplying traction in all necessary directions in order to make sharp and clean incisions.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000601:surgery*