title: A new loop suture tie-over technique for skin graft dressings.
abstract: Skin grafting is a well established technique for reconstructing areas of skin loss or excision in the hand. Traditional tie-over sutures often require operator assistance, do not allow adequate control when knotting and may cause unnecessary trauma to the graft when removed. We describe a new looped suture tie-over technique to secure and fix the graft dressings that is simple, quick, allows better knot-tying control and can be removed atraumatically.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, The Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, West Sussex, UK.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Misra
authors.forename: H J C R
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Belcher
mesh_terms: D006225:Hand / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D016038:Skin Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D013536:Suture Techniques