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Table 1
Results obtained for the required load to rupture the tested suture configuration, including the new proposed double Mason-Allen.
| Tests | Actual test results |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rupture weight | Load to failure | Results |
Error due to using 100 g weight steps | |
| Mean load to failure ± standard deviation | ||||
| (g) | (N) | (N) | (%) | |
| 1) Simple | ||||
| Minimum | 2,900 | 28.45 | 33.84 ± 5.40 | 3.5 |
| Maximum | 4,000 | 39.24 | 2.5 | |
| 2) Mattress | ||||
| Minimum | 5,200 | 51.01 | 66.22 ± 15.21 | 1.9 |
| Maximum | 8,300 | 81.42 | 1.2 | |
| 3) Mason-Allen | ||||
| Minimum | 14,000 | 137.34 | 145.68 ± 8.34 | 0.7 |
| Maximum | 15,700 | 154.02 | 0.6 | |
| 4) Modified Mason-Allen | ||||
| Minimum | 15,200 | 149.11 | 159.90 ± 10.79 | 0.7 |
| Maximum | 17,400 | 170.69 | 0.6 | |
| 5) Double Mason-Allen | ||||
| Minimum | 40,800 | 400.25 | 423.30 ± 23.05 | 0.2 |
| Maximum | 45,500 | 446.36 | 0.2 | |
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