Surgical staples can be an effective way to close wounds from surgery, to promote healing, and to help limit scarring.

Whether a midline or transverse incision is used in abdominal surgery depends mainly on the disease, anatomy and potential effects on wound healing, pain and postoperative complications. Decisions ...

Statistically, there were no differences between the two groups – only wound infections were significantly more frequent for transverse incisions. Dr. Seiler says, "This is difficult to explain.

Surgeons may prevent wound complications after total knee arthroplasty in patients with previous incisions with proper skin incision choice, meticulous hemostasis and by avoiding excessive tension ...

According to published results, prophylactic intraoperative incisional wound irrigation with an antiseptic solution was associated with reduced surgical site infections compared with use of either ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Recent Literature ...