Now for suturing tissues, and more especially tissues of such toughness and thickness as the abdominal parietes, a round needle is absolutely of no use.
But they are not surgical needles in the sense that they are intended for suturing tissues.
The work is completed by cutting off the sac and either suturing the esophageal wound or touching it with the cautery, and allowing it to heal by granulation.
Suturing of the skin to the trachea should never be done, for the sutures soon tear out and often set up a perichondritis of the tracheal cartilages, with resulting difficult decannulation.
Various methods of external operation have been devised, among which are: (1) Freeing the sac through an external cervical incision and suturing its fundus upward against the pharynx, which has proved successful in some cases.
Wounds of slight importance need but the usual thorough cleansing out, with or without suturing of the skin, according to the extent of the incision.
Closing and suturing the wound will complete the operation.
The treatment of large fibromas is surgical and consists of the operative removal of the tumor, followed by suturing of the wound.
In suturing the flaps it is necessary to avoid puncturing the bladder, which is quite close to, and often forms part of, the anterior flap.
He first frees the adherent edges of the fistula and then raises the flaps from the vaginal wall and brings them over the opening, suturing them carefully together.
A piece of stout silver wire or a tenaculum is passed deeply through the anterior and posterior lips of the cervix; steady traction can be made through these and the uterus kept fixed while denudation and suturing are carried out.
In the subtotal operation the risk arises chiefly in suturing the peritoneal flaps over the cervical stump, for the bladder is liable to be punctured with the needle as it lies close to the anterior flap.
In suturing the external wound the alæ of the thyreoid are brought accurately into the position which they occupied before division, in order that the anterior attachments (if left) of the vocal cords should heal at their proper level.
Closure of the fistula by detaching the bladder from the vagina and suturing it independently is described and practised by Mackenrodt.
But in 1882 Sänger published his method of suturing the uterus--that of employing two series of sutures, one deep, the other superficial.
As the use of antiseptics was not then understood, and as it was customary to return the uterus to the body cavity without suturing the incision, the immediate cause of death was either septicaemia or haemorrhage.
If the deformity has been allowed to occur it can only be corrected by an open operation, suturing or tightening the extensor tendon at its insertion into the base of the terminal phalanx.
The function of the organ is not interfered with, and the operation of paring and suturing the two halves is only called for on account of the disfigurement.
In injuries involving the lumbo-sacral region it is sometimes advisable to perform laminectomy for the purpose of suturing divided nerve cords.
In suturing wounds of the lids care must be taken to secure accurate apposition at the free margins, and to avoid constricting the canaliculi.
It is now the custom, therefore, for the surgeon to complete his operation for the relief of obstruction by drawing out a loop of the distended bowel, incising and evacuating it, and then carefully suturing and returning it.
Small perforating wounds of the bowel are treated by such suturing as the circumstances may suggest, the interior of the abdominal cavity being rendered as free from septic micro-organisms as possible.
Some surgeons therefore prefer to use a bobbin of decalcified bone or similar soft material, while others rely upon direct suturing of the parts.
As the suturing of the ends of the nerve is extremely painful, an anæsthetic is required.
Immediate suturing of the ends does not affect the degeneration of the distal segment.
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