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The use of imbricated sutures in radioactive plaque brachytherapy surgery

This paper describes a new technique to suture the radioactive plaque to sclera. The radioactive plaque is conventionally sutured to the sclera using 5/0 nylon sutures. The imbricated suture technique involves using a 1/0 silk or 2/0 mersilene suture imbricated with the 5/0 nylon suture when the nyl...

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Autores principales: Gündüz, Kaan, Pulido, Jose S, Yeakel, Peter D, King, Michael, Classic, Kelly L, Furutani, Keith M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850829/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20390037