title: [Single-layer digestive sutures. Tribute to Pierre Jourdan, its promotor].
abstract: Since Antiquity, people have tried to suture intestinal injuries and many procedures have been imagined. In 1953, Pierre Jourdan published his book on single-layer intestinal anastamosis, which convinced all surgeons.
authors.affiliation: Service de chirurgie générale et digestive, hôpital Cochin, Paris.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chapuis
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical / Q000266:history*; D004064:Digestive System / Q000166:cytology; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000266:history* / Q000601:surgery; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013537:Sutures / Q000266:history*