METHOD OF PERFORMING COSMETIC SURGICAL SUTURE Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC A61B17/04 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to field of medicine, namely to surgery, and can be applied during application of cosmetic surgical suture. Essence of method lies in the following: when needle is stuck into epidermis, it is turned in direction of operation cavity and passed in derma layer with intake of operation cavity bottom by its opposite side, behind which needle is turned in back direction with intake of derma and brought out into operation cavity at the level of wall third from epithelium. After that, at the same level needle is stuck into opposite wall of operation cavity and through derma and epidermis is stuck out of epithelium indenting from stick-in point in direction of operation cavity edge. After that, operation cavity is compressed and tightened by suture material. The latter is fixed above epithelium with surgeon's knot. After that upper third of operation cavity is covered with epidermis by application of suture material with uninterrupted linear suture. It is possible to stick needle into epidermis at distance 2-3 cm from operation cavity edge.

EFFECT: method allows to increase cosmetic effect of suture application.

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