The biologic and physical criteria for suture selection in cataract surgery.
This paper has disucssed histochemical, physical, and clinical considerations involved in proper suture selection for cataract surgery. Guidelines are proposed so that the surgeon can employ a standard method for evaluating each suture's performance. Accordingly, the surgeon can select the proper proper suture to satisfy his needs regardless of his operative technique.
D000042:Absorption; D000818:Animals; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000379:methods*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005549:Foreign-Body Reaction / Q000175:diagnosis; D006648:Histocompatibility; D006801:Humans; D007111:Immunity, Cellular; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000201:enzymology; D013537:Sutures / Q000592:standards; D013718:Tensile Strength