title: Studies on the tolerance of silk, nylon, dacron and collagen suture material in the cornea of the rabbit.
abstract: With rabbit corneas we did comparative biomicroscopical and histological investigations on material tolerance of the following threads at present used in microsurgery: Barraquer silk (virgin silk), nylon 30 mum (Tübinger nylon), dacron (polyester) 40 mum and plain collagen 7-0. The sutures were implanted into the cornea intra-lamellarly, completely under the microscope. The examinations showed only very little tissue reaction in all these materials.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003094:Collagen / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003315:Cornea / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009757:Nylons / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011093:Polyethylene Terephthalates / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011817:Rabbits; D013537:Sutures / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D009757:Nylons; D011093:Polyethylene Terephthalates; D003094:Collagen