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. 2019 Apr 10;12(7):1174. doi: 10.3390/ma12071174

Figure 6.

Figure 6

On the left, a scheme of the surgical procedure in a rabbit. After raising skin flaps, two longitudinal 3.0-cm-long 5-mm-wide full-thickness defects were made in the upper right and lower left quadrants of the lateral anterior abdominal wall and parallel to the midline. These incisions were primarily closed by a continuous 4/0 polypropylene (Prolene, Ethicon, Dilbeek, Belgium) suture at an interrun distance of 0.5 cm in the reinforcement group. In the upper left and lower right quadrant, a 30 mm × 15 mm full-thickness defect was induced and overlaid tension free by the implant of interest (gap bridging). The mesh was fixed at the four corners and half way along each side with PP sutures, and further fixed with a running poliglecaprone 25 (Monocryl, Ethicon) 4-0 around the implant at an interrun distance of 5 mm. Meshes were 25 mm × 40 mm, hence oversizing the defects. On the right, a representative image of the surgical site immediately after implantation of polypropylene and UPy-PC mesh. RF1 and 2: reinforcement sites; GB1 and 2: gap bridging sites. UPy-PC: electrospun ureidopyrimidinone polycarbonate.