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Medicine: "Microsurgery: Sew Small"
A man came into the emergency ward at one o'clock. His thumb came in an
hour later. The surgeon's job: get them back together.
The successful re-attaching of fingers to hand requires long hours of
painstaking work in microsurgery. In the operating room , the surge ....
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today, had taken the frustrating unreliability out of sewing slippery,
round-ended blood vessels by ingeniously turning them into triangles. To
do this, a cut end of a blood vessel was stitched at three equidistant
points and pulled slightly apart to give an anchored, triangular shape.
This now lent itself to easier, more dependable stitching and paved the
way for microsurgery where as many as twenty stitches will have to be made
in a blood vessel three millimetres thick. The needle used for this can
be just 70 millimetres wide, only ten times the width of a human blood
cell.
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