A debate has raged in the surgical literature about the use of a running suture verses interrupted sutures for abdominal wound closures. For most abdominal wounds either method can probably be used safely. A modified interrupted technique is described which may be useful for some difficult wounds. One of the main advantages of this technique is that the wound tension is equally distributed along the entire wound and not only on the last placed suture. The sutures are easily tied without having "to fight the wound".