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The stitch is generally removed around the 37th week of gestation or earlier if needed. [7] This procedure was developed by the Australian gynecologist and obstetrician, I.A. McDonald. [8] A Shirodkar cerclage is very similar, but the sutures pass through the walls of the cervix so they're not exposed. [2]
The chest drain stitch and corner stitch are variations of the horizontal mattress. [citation needed] Other stitches or suturing techniques include: Purse-string suture, a continuous, circular inverting suture which is made to secure apposition of the edges of a surgical or traumatic wound. [13] [14] Figure-of-eight stitch; Subcuticular stitch ...
Stitch! (スティッチ!, Suticchi!) [c] is a Japanese anime television series. It is a spin-off of Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise, serving as the franchise's second television series after Lilo & Stitch: The Series.
Yet “the husband stitch” — when a doctor provides an “extra” stitch while repairing an episiotomy or vaginal tear for the purpose of increasing male pleasure during sexual intercourse ...
The husband stitch or husband's stitch, [1] also known as the daddy stitch, [2] husband's knot and vaginal tuck, [3] is a medically unnecessary and potentially harmful surgical procedure in which one or more additional sutures than necessary are used to repair a woman's perineum after it has been torn or cut during childbirth.
Trout had the stitches removed this week following surgery to repair his broken hamate bone, the slugger said Friday. Trout has been out since July 3, when he hurt his hand on a swing.
The vertical mattress stitch is most commonly used in anatomic locations which tend to invert, such as the posterior aspect of the neck, and sites of greater skin laxity such as the closure of lax skin after removing a dermoid cyst or reduced subcutaneous tissue (e.g., the shin) that do not provide adequate subcutaneous tissue for dermal closure. [6]
Timing is important to wound healing. Critically, the timing of wound re-epithelialization can decide the outcome of the healing. [11] If the epithelization of tissue over a denuded area is slow, a scar will form over many weeks, or months; [12] [13] If the epithelization of a wounded area is fast, the healing will result in regeneration.