[Scanning electrone microscopic investigations of synthetic suture material (author's transl)].
Alterations of polyamide 6/6 sewing material after ophthalmologic micro-surgical operations were investigated by a scanning electrone microscope. On the basis of the typical transverse fissures of the nylon strings we succeeded in proving that these alterations were similar to those of a stick with circular cross-section after stress deflexion. Thus the fissures of the string cover can be reduced mainly to a mechanical permanent stress.
D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008866:Microsurgery; D009757:Nylons; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013537:Sutures; D013997:Time Factors
D009757:Nylons
Rasterelektronenmikroskopische Untersuchungen an Kunststoff-Fäden