title: The biologic and physical criteria for suture selection in cataract surgery.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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