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  2. Catgut suture - Wikipedia

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    Catgut suture is a type of surgical suture made of twisted strands of purified collagen taken from the small intestine of domesticated ruminants or beef tendon. It is naturally degraded by the body's own proteolytic enzymes .

  3. Suture materials comparison chart - Wikipedia

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    Plain catgut Chromic catgut Polyglycolide (P.G.A.) Polydioxanone (PDS) Description: Adsorbable biological suture material. Plain is an adsorbable suture made by twisting together strands of purified collagen taken from bovine intestines. The natural plain thread is precision ground in order to achieve a monofilament character and treated with a ...

  4. Catgut - Wikipedia

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    Catgut (also known as gut) is a type of cord [1] that is prepared from the natural fiber found in the walls of animal intestines. [2] Catgut makers usually use sheep or goat intestines, but occasionally use the intestines of cattle , [ 3 ] hogs , horses , mules , or donkeys . [ 4 ]

  5. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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    The 2nd-century Roman physician Galen described sutures made of surgical gut or catgut. [27] In the 10th century, the catgut suture along with the surgery needle were used in operations by Abulcasis. [28] [29] The gut suture was similar to that of strings for violins, guitars, and tennis racquets and it involved harvesting sheep or cow ...

  6. Davis & Geck - Wikipedia

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    Its Dexon brand of sutures, introduced in the 1970s, [1] was made with a man made organic material called polyglycolic acid. This new category of suture product reduced a surgeon's reliance on animal derived "catgut" sutures, which have inconsistent strength properties and can often cause significant wound irritation to patients.

  7. Surgery in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Catgut sutures were used by the ancient Romans as early as the 2nd century CE. [138] [139] [140] They also used sutures with metallic hooks. [109] Celsus discusses other kinds of suturing techniques in his medical literature. He wrote that the wounds were to be stitched up. Roman doctors used linen, wool, silk, hair, and clips to seal wounds.

  8. Warren operation - Wikipedia

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    The mucosal flap is then freed by sharply dissecting into the rectal orifice. Chromic catgut sutures are now places from within outward, including levator muscle fascia, perineal body, Colle's fascia, bulbocavernosus muscles and levator ani. The sutures are pulled up under tension and tied.

  9. History of surgery - Wikipedia

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    About this year Galen died after pioneering the use of catgut for suturing while clinging to Hippocrates Four Temperaments theory, viewing pus as beneficial, and viewing cancer as a result of melancholia caused by an excess of black bile, proven by its frequent occurrence in postmenopausal females, recommending surgical excision of a cancerous ...

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