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Absorbable Suture

Aka: Absorbable Suture
  1. Definition
    1. Suture loses tensile strength by 60 days under skin
  2. Indications
    1. Buried Suture to reduce wound edge tension
  3. Background: Absorbable Sutures
    1. CatgutSuture
    2. Treated CatgutSuture (Mild Chromic Gut)
    3. Polyglycolic Acid Suture (Dexon)
    4. Polyglactic Acid Suture (Vicryl)
    5. Polydioxanone (PDS)
    6. Polyglyconate (Maxon)
  4. References
    1. Howell (1997) Emerg Med Clin North Am 15(2):417-25
    2. Moy (1991) Am Fam Physician 44(6):2123-8
    3. Phenninger (1994) Procedures, p. P3-6
    4. Townsend (2001) Sabiston Textbook Surgery, p. 1552-3

Absorbable suture (C0461643)

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)
SnomedCT 348597004
English SUTURE, ABSORBABLE, Absorbable Sutures, Sutures, Absorbable, absorbable suture, absorbable sutures, suture absorbable, Absorbable suture, Absorbable suture (physical object)
Spanish sutura absorbible (objeto físico), sutura absorbible
Sources
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)


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