OBJECTIVE We sought to compare cosmetic outcomes, complication rates, and patient/caregiver satisfaction of absorbable versus nonabsorbable sutures in children. METHODS Healthy patients, 1 to 18 years old, with facial lacerations 1 to 5 cm, were randomized to repair with fast-absorbing catgut (FAC) or nylon (NYL) sutures. Patients returned in 4 to 7 days and in 3 to 4 months, at which time ph...

U TERINE prolapse is an old Iesion about which much has been written. Among the writings of Hippocrates reference is made to the fact that dispIacements of the uterus were recognized but it was not until the time of GaIen, 130 to 210 A.D., that this condition excited much interest. GaIen also we11 described the condition of proIapsus uteri. According to William FIetcher Shaw,’ MarshaI1 Ha11 of ...

in the embarrassing situation of having little or no catgut industry. Some far-sighted Edinburgh surgeons, realizing the problems, requested a local pharmacist, George Merson to undertake the commercial manufacture of this material. This he did in an old manse at St. John's Hill in the Pleasance, Edinburgh, and by the end of the war the business was well under way. About this time Merson began ...

Mục tiêu: Đánh giá hiệu quả điều trị của phương pháp cấy chỉ trên người bệnh viêm mũi xoang mạn tính. Đối tượng và nghiên cứu: Nghiên cứu được thiết kế theo can thiệp lâm sàng, so sánh trước sau trị: 50 nhân chẩn đoán bị tính tiêu chuẩn Viện hàn tai họng Hoa Kỳ (AAO) năm 2007. Các bệnh được Catgut vào các huyệt: Phong trì, Thái dương, Nghinh hương, Quyền liêu, Giáp xa, Khúc Hợp cốc, Túc tam lý....