Carefully sutured in a single layer with 4-0 vicryl

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Question: Case Study Preoperative diagnosis: Lacerations of right palm and forearm and left leg Postoperative diagnosis: Same An 8-year-old male was brought to the emergency room. While playing basketball with friends, he ran through a sliding glass door. He suffered lacerations on his right hand and arm and on his left leg just above and at the knee. Procedure: The patient was placed on the table in the supine position. Satisfactory local anesthesia was obtained. All wounds were cleaned and examined, and no sign of glass or other foreign bodies was found. The laceration of the left thigh, right above the patella, was repaired first by layered closure, and the 4.8-cm laceration was carefully sutured. The lacerations on the hand and arm were attended to next. A 3-cm laceration on the right-hand palm and a 4-cm laceration on the right forearm proximal to the elbow were carefully sutured in a single layer with 4-0 Vicryl, as well.

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