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2. Catgut suture - Wikipedia

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   Catgut suture has excellent handling features, high knot-pull tensile strength, and good knot security. It is used for all surgical procedures including general closure, ophthalmic, orthopedics, obstetrics/gynecology and gastrointestinal surgery. It is absorbed faster in patients with cancer, anemia, and malnutrition.

3. Suture materials comparison chart - Wikipedia

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   Due to undergoing a ribbon stage chromicisation (treatment with chromic acid salts), the chromic offers roughly twice the stitch-holding time of plain catgut. Chromic is absorbed by enzymatic degradation. Note – catgut is no longer used in the UK for human surgery. [citation needed] A synthetic adsorbable suture material.

4. Mohs surgery - Wikipedia

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   Mohs surgery is the gold standard method for obtaining complete margin control during removal of a skin cancer (complete circumferential peripheral and deep margin assessment - CCPDMA) using frozen section histology. [1] CCPDMA or Mohs surgery allows for the removal of a skin cancer with very narrow surgical margin and a high cure rate.

5. The Complete Guide to Healing After Mohs Reconstruction Surgery

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6. Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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   A surgical suture, also known as a stitch or stitches, is a medical device used to hold body tissues together and approximate wound edges after an injury or surgery. Application generally involves using a needle with an attached length of thread. There are numerous types of suture which differ by needle shape and size as well as thread material ...

7. Simple interrupted stitch - Wikipedia

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   It is known as an interrupted stitch because the individual stitches aren't connected; they are separate. Placing and tying each stitch individually is time-consuming, but this technique keeps the wound together even if one suture fails. [1] It is simple, and relatively easy to place. A surgeon's knot or knots cross the wound perpendicularly ...

8. Talk:Surgical suture - Wikipedia

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   Circumcision article says "The remaining skin is then stitched back using dissolvable stitches". If a dissolvable stich is same as the absorbable suture, then thats one example of usage in the skin. Jay 12:56, 10 Jul 2004 (UTC) a subcuticular stitch is often used to close skin, but the stitch is then place a few milimeters below the surface, so ...

9. Is 'the husband stitch' a medical myth? Women speak out ... - AOL

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   It sounds like a crude joke: A doctor stitches up a woman extra tight following childbirth while throwing a wink at her husband. Yet “the husband stitch” — when a doctor provides an “extra ...