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In Reply We thank Zhang and colleagues, Chen, and Shah and Dumanian for their thoughtful comments on our article, “Small Bites vs Large Bites for Closure of Abdominal Midline Incisions,”1 and we appreciate their emphasis on further reducing incisional hernia rates across different clinical settings.
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