Removing Stitches (cont.)
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Media file 1: This 32-year-old man received a cut to his ring finger on a piece of glass. Nine stitches were used to close the wound.
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Media file 2: Close-up of sutures of the ring finger.

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Media file 3: Stapled surgical wound of the left leg of a 46-year-old woman who underwent femoral artery bypass surgery. Staples were used to close the wound after the operation.

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Media file 4: Close-up of staples of a left leg surgical wound.

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Media file 5: This 26-year-old man received many cuts and bruises after falling from a 7-story window. This picture was taken 1 week after his fall. His eyebrow and neck wounds have been closed with adhesive strips.

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Media file 6: Close-up of adhesive strips used to close the wound to the eyebrow.

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As a method for closing cutaneous wounds, the technique of suturing is thousands of years old.

