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 ...
About a decade ago, Geoffrey Gurtner was chief of microsurgery at Bellevue Hospital in New York. A young patient had come in, about 10-12 months old, whose finger had been accidentally cut off by the ...