Rosin E, Richardson S
Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Vet Surg. 1987 Jul-Aug;16(4):269-72. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-950x.1987.tb00951.x.
Load-deformation data were used to determine the strength of healing abdominal incisions in dogs at 7, 14, and 21 days after wounding. The breaking energy of paramedian incisions closed by suturing the internal and external leaves of the sheath of the rectus abdominis muscle vs. incisions closed by suturing the external leaf only was similar in the 12 dogs studied. Closure of abdominal incisions by suturing only the external leaf of the rectus sheath provided wound strength comparable to the traditional method.