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Supplemental Digital Content 1 shows a rat acute abdominal burst model demonstrating mesh suture’s increased resistance to pull-through over conventional 5-0 polypropylene suture. Balloon insufflation of a rat abdomen closed with two conventional sutures fails at the suture-tissue interface, whereas identical balloon insufflation of an abdomen closed with mesh suture fails by means of rupture of the abdominal wall itself, http://links.lww.com/PRS/B194.
