Figure 1
From: Wound contraction and macro-deformation during negative pressure therapy of sternotomy wounds
Schematic illustration showing a transverse section through a sternotomy wound and the location of the wound dimension measurements. The thick bracketed horizontal lines illustrate the lateral wound width at the level of subcutaneous tissue, muscle tissue and sternum bone. The thick bracketed vertical lines illustrate the anterior-posterior thickness of the soft tissue, including the muscle and subcutaneous tissue, at a lateral distance of 0.5 cm and 2.5 cm from the wound edge.