Clinical Outcome and Wound Healing following Carpal Tunnel Decompression: A Comparison of Two Common Suture Materials

Table 2

Clinical and functional outcomes.

	Absorbable	Nonabsorbable	value
Mean wound length (range)	3.34 (2.0–4.5 cm)	3.95 (3.0–5.0)	0.003
Preoperative QuickDASH	49.39 (12.5–79.55)	38.63 (13.63–86.36)
2 weeks QuickDASH	27.80 (20.33–35.17)	24.10 (4.55–65.90)	0.49
6 weeks QuickDASH	18.54 (0.00–63.64)	17.70 (2.27–40.91)	0.86
VAS score mean (SD)	0.61 (1.46)	0.42 (1.02)	0.91