DENVER — Wounds heal better when closed with the purse-string suture than when not sutured, a new study shows. However, although there was modest improvement in speed of healing and a reduction in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — A technique dubbed the purse-string suture seems to be an effective surgical intervention in the ...

China: Endoscopic purse-string suturing is a safe, minimally invasive, and effective treatment for abdominal drain-associated fistulas (ADAFs), especially effective in small fistulas with openings ≤1 ...

We retrospectively reviewed a database of 113 patients with undilated pancreatic ducts who had undergone laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) with purse string suture pancreaticojejunostomy to ...

Iatrogenic perforation is the most feared adverse event in endoscopy. With the expansion of interventional endoscopy in favor of traditional surgery, it is now more crucial than ever to develop ...

Within the first month postinsertion, there were no significant intergroup differences in terms of infection complication rates or noninfection complication rates. (HealthDay News) — Similar ...

The retzius-sparing approach for robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has been increasingly adopted. Symptomatic lymphoceles are a widespread complication of RARP with pelvic lymph node ...