Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 2 Results of biomechanical tensile tests of suture materials alone
From: Barbed suture vs conventional tenorrhaphy: biomechanical analysis in an animal model
Suture material | Tensile force (N) |
|---|---|
Breaking force | |
3/0 prolene | 23.5 ± 0.9 |
2/0 polypropylene Quill™ SRS | 27.1 ± 1.2 |
2/0 PDO Quill™ SRS | 28.3 ± 1.0 |