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Nonabsorbable sutures provide permanent support scaffolding and are removed once healing has occurred. In the current study, 15 samples of absorbable sutures and nonabsorbable sutures were examined.

Over the course of 14 months, 550 patients were randomized with 275 receiving monocryl suture and 275 receiving vicryl. Patients studied were those undergoing non-emergency cesarean deliveries at ...

Cleaning absorbable sutures with hydrogen peroxide dramatically decreases their tensile strength, researchers have found. Sutures -- whose use is described in Egyptian scrolls dating from 3500 B.C ...