A simple cuff-suture technique for microvascular anastomosis
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G R Deshmukh1, Y Yang, V A Tellis
1Department of Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY 10567.
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery
|November 1, 1992
Abstract:
The use of synthetic cuffs to simplify and hasten microvascular anastomoses is offered as an alternative to conventional methods. In this study, a soft, non-irritating, silicone rubber cuff was used to construct end-to-end and end-to-side cuff-sutured anastomoses in rats. This technique was as rapid as other non-sutured anastomoses, required no assistant, and provoked no foreign-body reactions.