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  2. 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 ...

  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.

  4. Surgical staple - Wikipedia

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    An exception to that however could be organ transplantation where these two phases, i.e.device positioning at the vascular stumps and device actioning, can be carried out in different time, by different surgical team, in safe conditions when the time required does not influence donor organ preservation, i.e. at the back table in cold ischemia ...

  5. 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.

  6. Christina Hall Gets Stitches After Accident During Night Out

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    Christina Hall got stitches after slicing her hand open during a night out with her friends. “Fun night,” the HGTV star, 40, captioned a photo via her Instagram Stories on Friday, December 15 ...

  7. Vertical mattress stitch - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. 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 ...

  9. Influencer 'Didn't Recognize' Herself After Dissolving 15 ...

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    However, dissolving years of filler had left Stobart with what she calls "extreme" skin sagging, and at 34, she decided to bypass less invasive procedures like the "ponytail" facelift and go for a ...