Effective Wound Closure With a New Two-Component Wound Closure Device (Prineo™) in Excisional Body-Contouring Surgery: Experience in Over 200 Procedures

摘要

Background In excisional body-contouring surgery the surgeon is often confronted with time-consuming closure of long wounds. Recently, a new combination of a self-adhering mesh together with a liquid 2-octyl cyanoacrylate adhesive (Prineo™; Ethicon, Inc., Somerville, NJ, USA) has been introduced to replace intracutaneous running suture.