Sutures role in wound repair process is to provide hemostasis and support for healing tissue [1-6]. Different tissues have differing requirements for suture support because they heal at different rates. Some tissues need support for only a few days (e.g. muscle, subcutaneous tissue, skin), whereas others require weeks (fascia) or even months (tendon) to heal. Patient variations further affect s...

INTRODUCTION Post-operative astigmatism is one of the most important causes for diminution of vision after trabeculectomy. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the induced corneal astigmatism following trabeculectomy with the use of 8-0 silk suture. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective interventional study was done including 100 consecutive eyes of 84 patients who underwent trabeculectomy with the use of 8...

After skin grafting, to prevent hematoma or seroma collection at the graft site, a tie-over dressing has been commonly used. However, although the conventional tie-over dressing by suture is a useful method for securing a graft site, refixation is difficult when repeated tie-over dressing is needed. Therefore, we recommend a redoable tie-over dressing technique with multiple loops threads and c...

Episiotomy is a very common operation but little is known of its short-term or long-term morbidity.A prospective study was designed to record postpartum perineal discomfort and to investigate the presence and persistence of dyspareunia following episiotomy in 140 primigravidae. A comparison was made between those whose perineal skin was sutured with a subcuticular polyglycolic acid (;Dexon') st...

Breast surgeons usually mark the specimen of a wide excision of a breast cancer with sutures (e.g. short-superior, long-lateral and double-deep), so the pathologist may orientate it and identify which margins of excision are close to, or involved with the cancer. When an impalpable, radiologically detected lesion is excised, a specimen radiograph is taken to ascertain the position of the suspic...

Rotation sutures are a popular method of temporarily correcting involutional entropion. The permanence of the procedure depends on a fibrotic scar along the suture tracks. Sutures which create generous scars would probably produce the most satisfactory results. In this study 4-0 chromic gut, nylon, and silk sutures were evaluated in rabbit lower eyelids for their ability to create histologicall...