In women who undergo elective cesarean delivery, wound complications are lower in Pfannenstiel incisions closed with poliglecaprone 25 suture compared with in those who receive polyglactin 910 suture, ...

In the largest study to date comparing sutures (stitches) versus surgical staples for closing a C-section, researchers found a 57 percent decrease in wound complications in women who were sutured ...

(HealthDay News) — For women undergoing cesarean delivery, suture closure of the skin incision is associated with a reduction in wound complications compared with staple closure, according to a study ...

There were 57% fewer wound complications after cesarean section with suture closure of the incision compared with staple closure, according to findings of a prospective, randomized controlled trial ...

In a study to be presented Thursday, Jan. 26, in the oral concurrent session at 1:15 p.m. PST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™, researchers with the ...

The decision to use sutures or staples to close incisions after a cesarean delivery has been debated in the obstetrics community, but results from a new study seem to give sutures the edge, at least ...

When Clarel Antoine, MD, of the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York City, reflected on his decades-long career performing hundreds of cesarean sections, he realized his patients didn't seem to ...

Settling a long-time debate, researchers show that sewing up a C-section skin incision with sutures leads to fewer complications than using surgical staples. Cesarean sections account for about a ...