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  2. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    Projectional radiograph of surgical staples. Surgical staples are specialized staples used in surgery in place of sutures to close skin wounds or connect or remove parts of the bowels or lungs. The use of staples over sutures reduces the local inflammatory response, width of the wound, and time it takes to close. [1]

  3. 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 ...

  4. Wound closure strip - Wikipedia

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    Wound closure strips applied to a cut on the top of the foot. Wound closure strips are porous surgical tape strips which can be used to close small wounds. They are applied across the laceration in a manner which pulls the skin on either side of the wound together. Wound closure strips may be used instead of sutures (stitches) in some injuries ...

  5. Ventral rectopexy - Wikipedia

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    Tackers (Protack), titanium screw tacks, or sutures (absorbably or non-absorbable) are used to fix the mesh to the sacral promontory. [7] Absorbable or non-absorbable sutures (Ethibond, prolypropylene), or 4mm titanium staples are used to fix the mesh to anterior rectal wall. [7]

  6. Suture materials comparison chart - Wikipedia

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    The following table compares some of the most common adsorbable sutures. 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.

  7. Wound healing - Wikipedia

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    Wound closure is performed with sutures (stitches), staples, or adhesive tape or glue. Primary intention can only be implemented when the wound is precise and there is minimal disruption to the local tissue and the epithelial basement membrane, e.g. surgical incisions.

  8. Surgical anastomosis - Wikipedia

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    Surgical anastomosis. A surgical anastomosis is a surgical technique used to make a new connection between two body structures that carry fluid, such as blood vessels or bowel. For example, an arterial anastomosis is used in vascular bypass and a colonic anastomosis is used to restore colonic continuity after the resection of colon cancer.

  9. Stapler - Wikipedia

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    The word "stapler" can actually refer to a number of different devices of varying uses. In addition to joining paper sheets together, staplers can also be used in a surgical setting to join tissue together with surgical staples to close a surgical wound (much in the same way as sutures). [2] Most staplers are used to join multiple sheets of paper.

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