Bowel anastomosis metabolically active longer than skin wound
- Collagen synthesis markedly elevated even after 120 days
- Non-collagen protein synthesis is twice as great in wound than in normal tissue.
Colon and stomach wounds closed with absorbable sutures are weaker at 14 – 28 days than those closed with nonabsorbable sutures.
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