What does the "2-0" miserable when referring to a 2-0 silk pursestring?
Answers: 2-0 refers to the size of the sutures. The sizes range from 11-0 (smallest diameter) to 7 (the largest diameter). The silk is the fabric that the suture is made out of and the purse string is the type of stitching used (way to close a wound).
e13ski is essentially correct. I didn't know all the ranges. When I be doing my surgical rotations (somewhere back surrounded by the Pleistocene era), what we called 2-0 be written 00, 4-0 was written 0000, and so forth.
Probably the commonest use of a purse string suture is to close the stump after an appendectomy.
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