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Original communication| Volume 9, ISSUE 2, P194-197, February 1941

Wound healing

With especial reference to muscle and fascia repair
  • K.S. Chouké
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa., USA

    From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine Denver, Colo., USA
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  • R.W. Whitehead
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Anatomy, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa., USA

    From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Colorado School of Medicine Denver, Colo., USA
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      Abstract

      • 1.
        1. Healing of severed, striated muscle of dogs and rats occurs by fibrous connective tissue growth from the epi-, peri-, and endomysium, and not through regeneration of muscle cells.
      • 2.
        2. Fascia unites readily to fascia, when closely approximated, by connective tissue growth.
      • 3.
        3. The type of suture material employed (silk or catgut) did not appear to influence the degree or extent of union between fascia or muscle.
      • 4.
        4. A firmer union developed between muscle and muscle and between fascia and fascia than Seelig and Chouké observed between muscle and fascia.
      • 5.
        5. The union of muscle to muscle and fascia to fascia is complete eight to eleven days after suture.
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