Abstract

ARMAS MOREDO, Karina et al. Surgical suture materials. AMC [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.5. ISSN 1025-0255.

A bibliographical review on the topic of surgical suture material, so much national as internationally, trying to find the most up-to-date possible information, taking as base a work published in a national magazine in the year 1990 and a bibliographical review of ours presented in Amalia Simoni hospital in 1995. The informative materials of some business houses are reviewed and starting from here, the well-known classifications are exposed with the products that compose it and offering the characteristics of the commercial product and the manufacturer. The advantages of the suture materials of synthetic origin are pointed out on the natural ones that are displaced in their use and preference. It encourages us the interest of helping to improve the knowledge on this topic to the health professionals and in formation, paramedic personnel as well as to veterinary doctors.

Keywords : suture material; surgical suture; suture threads.

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