Sutures are filaments, fibers or thread-like materials used to hold a wound or tissue together. In surgical language, sutures are used for apposition – that is, the positioning (of tissue) side by ...

Surgeries with the endoscope are exacting and require special capabilities of the surgeon. The suturing of the tissue and the setting of the knots, in particular, is very complicated due to the lack ...

“You can use thread, dental floss, even the hair from a horse’s tail,” says Cheryl Lowry, a physician and deputy director at the Center for Polar Medical Operations at the University of Texas Medical ...

DENVER — Wounds heal better when closed with the purse-string suture than when not sutured, a new study shows. However, although there was modest improvement in speed of healing and a reduction in ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. (“Apollo”) (Nasdaq:APEN), a global leader in less invasive medical devices for bariatric and gastrointestinal procedures, announced today that ...

A video of an eight-year-old Chinese girl learning how to surgically suture under the supervision of her doctor father has gone viral on mainland social media. Last week, the girl’s father, surnamed ...