Table 1.
Nasofrontal suture specimen dimensions, mean±standard deviations (sample size)
| Tissue origin | Test type | Specimen dimensions |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length (mm) | Test length (mm) | Width (mm) | Thickness (mm) | X-sectional area (mm)2 | Suture width (μm) | ||
| Younger pigs | Fast (0.02 mm/s) | 342±75 (11) | |||||
| Compression (C) | 57±11 (11) | 34±7 (11) | 5±0.7 (11) | 7±2 (11) | 35±11 (11) | ||
| Tension (T) | 62±6 (8) | 32±6 (8) | 5±0.4 (8) | 9±3 (8) | 41±15 (8) | ||
| p-value, C vs. T | ns | ns | ns | ns | ns | ns | |
| Older pigs | Fast (0.02 mm/s) | 256±73 (5) | |||||
| Compression | 63±4 (4) | 33±5 (4) | 5±0.5 (4) | 9±5 (4) | 50±29 (4) | ||
| Tension | 63±6 (8) | 34±3 (8) | 5±0.9 (8) | 13±4 (8) | 67±22 (8) | ||
| p-value, C vs. T | ns | ns | ns | ns | ns | ns | |
| Slow (0.0002 mm/s) | |||||||
| Compression | 74±7 (15) | 36±6 (15) | 5±0.6 (15) | 14±3 (15) | 71±18 (15) | ||
| Tension | 64±5 (14) | 32±2 (14) | 5±0.6 (14) | 13±4 (14) | 64±19 (14) | ||
| p-value, C vs. T | 0.03 | ns | ns | ns | ns | ||