Skin stretch suturing with Nice knots in the treatment of small- or medium-sized wounds

Table 1 The demographic data of the included patients. M, male; F, female

No. of patient	Gender	Age, yrs	Cause of soft-tissue defects	Site	Sizes (cm)	Time of wound closure (days)	Time of woundhealing (days)	Follow-up (months)
1	M	26	traumatic	Forearm L	4.2 × 8.5	8	14	6
2	F	32	tendon exposures	Calf R	5.6 × 12.1	12	20	9
3	M	15	traumatic	Calf L	4.0 × 9.6	11	18	6
4	F	41	after ulectomy	Thigh L	6.5 × 13.4	6	15	8
5	M	36	tension reduced incision	Forearm R	3.2 × 7.1	5	14	12
6	M	23	traumatic	Calf R	7.0 × 13.8	16	21	8
7	M	45	tension reduced incision	Abdomen	4.5 × 9.0	8	10	9
8	F	30	traumatic	Calf L	4.6 × 11.3	10	18	12
9	M	43	tendon exposures	Foot L	4.1 × 11.2	13	20	8
10	M	28	tension reduced incision	Calf R	6.4 × 13.6	18	24	9
11	F	39	traumatic	Thigh R	5.3 × 14.1	9	14	6
12	M	34	tension reduced incision	Calf L	8.0 × 15.2	13	24	12
13	M	19	after ulectomy	Upper arm R	5.0 × 13.4	10	16	8
14	F	23	traumatic	Thigh R	6.1 × 14.5	7	14	9
15	M	21	tendon exposures	Calf R	5.3 × 13.8	9	18	6
16	M	36	tension reduced incision	Forearm L	6.4 × 13.7	11	15	6
17	M	31	donor site	Calf R	5.8 × 13.4	12	14	6
18	F	48	traumatic	Forearm L	5.1 × 12.9	9	15	9
19	M	34	tendon exposures	Calf L	4.6 × 10.4	20	21	12
20	M	38	tension reduced incision	Thigh L	4.2 × 11.3	8	14	6
21	F	27	tendon exposures	Calf R	3.8 × 8.6	13	18	6
22	F	24	donor site	Calf L	4.5 × 11.6	16	21	9
23	M	18	traumatic	Abdomen	5.2 × 12.4	7	10	9
24	M	36	after ulectomy	Calf R	5.3 × 10.7	10	16	12
25	M	42	traumatic	Calf R	7.5 × 3.2	5	16	6
26	F	25	tension reduced incision	Upper arm R	4.3 × 12.5	12	18	9
		30.65 ± 8.64				10.69 ± 3.81	16.85 ± 3.66	8.39 ± 2.19

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