The "Needle-splint" Technique: A Method of Accurate Apposition and Eversion during Microvascular Anastomosis.
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8
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e2611 - ?
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10.1097/GOX.0000000000002611
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Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
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2169-7574
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We present the "needle-splint" technique, a microsurgical suturing technique that enhances micro-suturing technique, while ensures finer apposition and vessels walls eversion during the placement of sutures in microvascular anastomosis. This report demonstrates the usefulness of this technique in simple interrupted, continuous-interrupted, or multi-loops microsurgical suturing. It further allows direct visualization of the intra-wall-edges space and intimal sutures surface and could be utilized as a safety stabilizer to errors as it allows optimal vessels alignment while the needle curvature is acting as a "pusher" to separate the posterior wall during knot tying.
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Pafitanis, G; Pahal, GS; Myers, S; Ramakrishnan, VCollections
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