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Volume 43, Issue 5 , Pages 879-886 , 22 March 2010

Finite element analysis of barbed sutures in skin and tendon tissues

N.P. Ingle
- Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science, College of Textiles, 2401 Research Drive, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8301, USA
- Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, Raleigh, NC 27695-7115, USA
M.W. King
- Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science, College of Textiles, 2401 Research Drive, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8301, USA
- College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, PR China
- Corresponding author at: Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science, College of Textiles, 2401 Research Drive, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8301, USA. Tel.: +19192912563; fax: +19195156532.
M.A. Zikry
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7910, USA