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  2. Catgut suture - Wikipedia

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    Surgical suture on needle holders. Catgut suture in a vintage glass dispenser. 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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    A synthetic adsorbable suture material. Braided synthetic adsorbable multifilament made of polyglycolic acid and coated with N-laurin and L-lysine, which render the thread extremely smooth, soft and knot safe. A synthetic adsorbable suture material. Monofilament synthetic absorbable suture, prepared from the polyester, poly (p-dioxanone ...

  4. Polyglycolide - Wikipedia

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    The degradation product, glycolic acid, is nontoxic, but like ethylene glycol, it is metabolized to oxalic acid, which could make it dangerous. A part of the glycolic acid is also excreted by urine. [9] Studies undergone using polyglycolide-made sutures have shown that the material loses half of its strength after two weeks and 100% after four ...

  5. 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

  6. Catgut - Wikipedia

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    A coil of catgut cello string.. 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]

  7. 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.

  8. Chitin - Wikipedia

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    [2] [16] [35] Sutures made of chitin have been experimentally developed, but their lack of elasticity and problems making thread have prevented commercial success so far. [36] Chitosan has been demonstrated and proposed to make a reproducible form of biodegradable plastic. [37]

  9. Vertical mattress stitch - Wikipedia

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    The middle stitch is a vertical mattress the others simple interrupted stitches. The vertical mattress stitch, often called vertical Donati stitch (named after the Italian surgeon Mario Donati), [1] is a suture type used to close skin wounds. The advantages of the vertical mattress suture are that it provides closure for both deep and ...

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