Fifteen of these patients (78.9%) had their infraumbilical incision closed with a subcuticular suture, eliminating the need for the follow-up office visit for staple removal. Mean patient age was ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Women whose cesarean sections are closed with staples are more than ...

Batra J, et al. (2016). Comparison of skin staples and standard sutures for closing incisions after head and neck cancer surgery: A double-blind, randomized and prospective study.

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.

Suture Compared With Staple Skin Closure After Cesarean Delivery. Obstetrics & Gynecology , 2014; 123 (6): 1169 DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000000227 Cite This Page : ...

Women who had caesarean sections were less likely to suffer complications if their incisions were closed with sutures instead of staples, a U.S. study suggests. When researchers randomly assigned ...

A 2013 study showed that over 50 percent of doctors prefer to use staples over sutures, for ease of use, speed of the procedure, and for closing deeper incisions such as those in overweight women.

The researchers also found that women in the suture group were 80 percent less likely to have their wound re-open to a size of 1 centimeter (0.4 inches) or more than those in the staples group.

And in a separate health economics study analyzing the records of 130 total knee replacements, patients who received surgical staples had more incision-related emergency room admissions, as well ...