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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:1431-1432
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

How to do it

A New, Easy Method for Putting "U" Stitches Inside the Chest Wall

Atsushi Watanabe, MD*,a, Toshiaki Watanabe, MDa, Hiroki Satoh, MDa, Tohru Mawatari, MDa, Hisayoshi Ohsawa, MDa, Noriyuki Takahashi, MDa, Tomio Abe, MDa

a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Accepted for publication December 12, 2003.

* Address reprint requests to Dr Watanabe, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Chuo-ku South 1, West 16, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan
atsushiw{at}sapmed.ac.jp

In this report, we describe a new, easy method for putting "U" stitches inside the chest wall. The method does not require extension of the skin incision nor subcutaneous dissection and it minimizes chest wall injury. This method may also be applied to other surgical fields where needles can penetrate the wall of the cavity when it is difficult to stitch from the inside of the cavity.






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