title: Retention suture technique using buttons.
abstract: The use of buttons for retention sutures is advocated as practical, inexpensive, universally available and well tolerated bolsters over which heavy nonabsorbable sutures may be secured. We have not found any disadvantages to the described techniques in the past 12 years.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D013529:Surgical Wound Dehiscence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation