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CIRCUMCISION WITHOUT CATGUT
Author(s) -
Brooke Bryan N.,
Walker Frank C.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1964.tb09489.x
Subject(s) - fibrous joint , thickening , medicine , surgery , materials science , polymer science
SUMMARY Most surgical textbooks recommend the use of catgut for coaptation of the layers of the prepuce following circumcision. As a half‐buried suture, this material is shown clinically and experimentally to be associated with a moist, œdematous wound which may later exhibit fibrous, nodular thickening at the original site of each suture. As an alternative suturing material, silk is shown to be satisfactory.