title: A simple and inexpensive technique for closing trocar sites and grasping sutures.
abstract: Grasping sutures during laparoscopic surgery is useful in closing trocar sites, repairing ventral hernias, and securing abdominal wall bleeding. This can be a cumbersome task through small incisions. An 18 gauge spinal needle and the suture of choice for accomplishing the job at hand can be used with a laparoscopic-assisted technique that is simple, inexpensive, and easy to learn. Surgeons performing laparoscopy should add this technique to their repertoire.
authors: Department of Surgery, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
authors: D B
authors: DB
authors: Earle
mesh_terms: D000009:Abdominal Muscles / Q000601:surgery; D006488:Hemostasis, Surgical / Q000379:methods; D006555:Hernia, Ventral / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D013536:Suture Techniques