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Silk Suture

  • Category
  1. Natural Nonabsorbable Suture (braided)
  • Indications
  • Rarely used now
  1. Eye and lip skin surgery
  2. Intraoral surgery
  3. Vas deferens ligation (Vasectomy)
  • Advantages
  1. Best handling and tying of any Suture Material
  • Disadvantages
  1. Least tensile strength of any Suture Material
  2. High tissue reactivity (similar to Catgut Suture)
  3. Increases risk of infection due to high capillarity
  • References
  1. Epperson in Pfenninger and Fowler (1994) Procedures for Primary Care Physicians, Mosby, Chicago, p. 3-11
  2. Townsend (2001) Sabiston Textbook Surgery, p. 1552-3
  3. Howell (1997) Emerg Med Clin North Am 15(2):417-25 [PubMed]
  4. Moy (1991) Am Fam Physician 44(6):2123-8 [PubMed]