Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 1 Results of biomechanical tensile tests of tendon repairs including tensile force of 2-mm gap formation, the breaking force, the mode of sample failure, the pre-repair (APR) and post-repair (AR) cross-sectional area and the changes (%) in tendon dimensions
From: Barbed suture vs conventional tenorrhaphy: biomechanical analysis in an animal model
Repair technique | Tensile force (N) | Failure mode (observed number) | Repair site cross-sectional area (mm2) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2-mm gap formation | Breaking force | Suture breakage | Suture pull-out | Pre-repair (APR) | Post-repair (AR) | Change (%) | |
Group A | 21.2 ± 5.9 | 28.2 ± 6.2 | 12 | 8 | 12.4 ± 3.1 | 24.7 ± 7.6 | 99.6 |
Group B | 38.2 ± 9.3 | 50.3 ± 9.9 | 20 | 0 | 14.6 ± 2.8 | 25.7 ± 10.0 | 76.3 |
Group C | 41.0 ± 11.4 | 61.5 ± 11.0 | 20 | 0 | 15.4 ± 2.3 | 25.0 ± 6.1 | 61.8 |