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Absorbable Suture
- Definition
- Suture loses tensile strength by 60 days under skin
- Indications
- Buried Suture to reduce wound edge tension
- Absorbable Sutures
- Catgut Suture
- Treated Catgut Suture (Mild Chromic Gut)
- Polyglycolic Acid Suture (Dexon)
- Polyglactic Acid Suture (Vicryl)
- Polydioxanone (PDS)
- Polyglyconate (Maxon)
- References
- Howell (1997) Emerg Med Clin North Am 15(2):417
- Moy (1991) Am Fam Physician 44(6):2123
- Phenninger (1994) Procedures, p. P3-6
- Townsend (2001) Sabiston Textbook Surgery, p. 1552-3
Absorbable suture (C0461643)
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| Definition (SPN) | An absorbable surgical gut suture, both plain and chromic, is an absorbable, sterile, flexible thread prepared from either the serosal connective tissue layer of beef (bovine) or the submucosal fibrous tissue of sheep (ovine) intestine, and is intended for use in soft tissue approximation. |
| Concepts | Medical Device (T074)
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| English | Absorbable suture |
| Spanish | sutura absorbible |
| Credits | Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)
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