Using fishing line for suturing.
Fishing line is an inexpensive and atraumatic suture material. Its properties and uses are summarized here. Comparison is made between different diameters and types of fishing line and commercially available sutures and needles to enable appropriate line selection for its use as suture material.
Pereira
Erlick A C
EA
Nuffield Department of Surgery, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. eacp@eacp.co.uk
Cotton
Michael H
MH
D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000295:instrumentation; D009757:Nylons; D013536:Suture Techniques / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013537:Sutures; D013718:Tensile Strength
D009757:Nylons