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Erlick A C Pereira1, Michael H Cotton
1Nuffield Department of Surgery, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. eacp@eacp.co.uk
Tropical Doctor
|August 4, 2006
Abstract:
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.