surgical suture
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Introduction
Needle & thread used to close a wound. Surgical sutures may be absorbable by body tissues, thus eliminating the need for suture removal.
Management
- recommendations to keep dry for 48 hours unwarranted
- wounds may be washed within 12 hours
- subcuticular Vicryl closure left in place produces best scars[3]
More general terms
More specific terms
- abdominal wall suture for evisceration/dehiscence
- angiorrhaphy
- enterorraphy
- enterorrhaphy
- gastrorrhaphy
- hepatorrhaphy
- nephrorrhaphy; suture of kidney
- repair of laceration tongue/floor of mouth
- surgical suture of eyelid wound
- suture of esophageal injury
- suture of infrapatellar tendon
- suture of iris/ciliary body
- suture of mesentery
- suture of nerve
- suture of nerve plexus
- suture of tongue to lip for micrognathia
- suture of tracheal injury
- tarsorrhaphy
- temporary closure of eyelids by surgical suture
- tenodesis
- trachelorrhaphy
- upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with suturing of esophagogastric junction
Additional terms
References
- ↑ Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.
- ↑ Heal C et al, Can sutures get wet? Prospective randomised controlled trial of wound management in general practice BMJ 2006; 332:1053 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16636023
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Alam M et al, Aesthetic and functional efficacy of subcuticular running epidermal closures of the trunk and extremity: A rater-binded randomized control trial. Arch Dermatolo 2006, 142:1272 PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17043181