Surgical and hiStoPatHological, studies on the healing of cystotomy wounds in pet animals

Abstract

Veterinary literature is very limited on the subject of suture materials and our colleges give little attention to its study; as a consequence the average practitioner's knowledge of the subject is obtained through experience, sometimes with undesirable results. The importance of suture materials especially the non-reactable ones, nowadays receive a great deal of concern to surgeons allover the world. Since the ideal suture material does not exist, the surgeon must choose materials based on a knowledge of the attributes of those materials and condition of the surgical wound