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Silk Suture
- Category
- Natural Nonabsorbable Suture (braided)
- Indications: Rarely used now
- Eye and lip skin surgery
- Intraoral surgery
- Advantages
- Best handling and tying of any Suture Material
- Disadvantages
- Least tensile strength of any Suture Material
- High tissue reactivity (similar to Catgut Suture)
- Increases risk of infection due to high capillarity
- 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
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| Definition (SPN) | Natural nonabsorbable silk surgical suture is a nonabsorbable, sterile, flexible multifilament thread composed of an organic protein called fibroin. This protein is derived from the domesticated species Bombyx mori (B. mori) of the family Bombycidae. Natural nonabsorbable silk surgical suture is indicated for use in soft tissue approximation. Natural nonabsorbable silk surgical suture meets the United States Pharmacopeia (U.S.P.) monograph requirements for Nonabsorbable Surgical Suture (class I). Natural nonabsorbable silk surgical suture may be braided or twisted; it may be provided uncoated or coated; and it may be undyed or dyed with an FDA listed color additive. |
| Concepts | Medical Device (T074)
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| English | Silk suture |
| Spanish | sutura de seda |
| Credits | Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System)
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