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* Absorption of buried sutures appears prolonged because reptiles may lack proteolytic enzymes. Do not use catgut.
 
* Absorption of buried sutures appears prolonged because reptiles may lack proteolytic enzymes. Do not use catgut.
 
* Skin incisions tend to invert so use an everting suture pattern. Do not use continuous suture pattern in areas of stress (e.g. horizontal mattress, staples).
 
* Skin incisions tend to invert so use an everting suture pattern. Do not use continuous suture pattern in areas of stress (e.g. horizontal mattress, staples).
* Warn owners that shed skin may adhere in the areas of the healed surgical wounds for several sheds postoperatively. This can be gently removed.
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* Warn owners that shed skin may adhere in the areas of the healed surgical wounds for several sheds postoperatively. This can be gently removed.
Skin incisions tend to invert so use an everting suture pattern
      
==Post-operative care==
 
==Post-operative care==
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