Prospective randomised controlled trial to compare tissue reactions and scarring with polypropylene versus polyglactin 910 sutures in periocular skin
Tessa Fayers, John S Vekinis, Laura Ah-Kye, David Parham, Priscilla Anketell, Justin Weir, Roger A’Hern, Ben Parkin · 2025
Read Prospective randomised controlled trial to compare tissue reactions and scarring with polypropylene versus polyglactin 910 sutures in periocular skin by Tessa Fayers, John S Vekinis, Laura Ah-Kye, David Parham, Priscilla Anketell, Justin Weir, Roger A’Hern, Ben Parkin (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13311939.txt.
Description
Tessa Fayers and co-authors report a 2025 randomized trial comparing two suture materials in eyelid skin. Polypropylene and polyglactin 910 threads were tested for tissue reaction and scarring around the eye.
Forty-seven entropion patients were assigned one material for both a first stitch procedure and later definitive surgery. A masked pathologist measured the inflammation ring around the thread in removed tissue. Mean ring width was 0.39 mm for polypropylene and 0.56 mm for the rival in this trial. Foreign body giant cells were clearly fewer with polypropylene, the one firm statistical gap. Scar ratings by patients and masked judges are also reported.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Tessa Fayers, John S Vekinis, Laura Ah-Kye, David Parham, Priscilla Anketell, Justin Weir, Roger A’Hern, Ben Parkin |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26599 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |