title: Locally available plant materials for use as ophthalmic surgical swabs.
abstract: Four locally available plant materials have been studied and adapted for use as suitable surgical swabs for various ophthalmic surgical procedures. The corn, the millet, the sugar cane stems and the banana leaf frond provide very cheap, easily available and suitable materials for use as alternative surgical swabs to the much used and tested German Spontex swabs.
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D000818:Animals; D001769:Blood; D003906:Developing Countries; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D005638:Fruit; D006358:Hot Temperature; D006801:Humans; D009549:Nigeria; D008897:Panicum; D010944:Plants; D011817:Rabbits; D013523:Surgical Equipment; D014867:Water; D003313:Zea mays
chemical_list: D014867:Water