Continuous vertical hemimattress suture for biliary-enteric anastomosis.

Shigeaki Moriura, Ichiro Kobayashi, Kotaro Hattori, Taihei Oshiro, Mari Kawahara, Takatoshi Matsumoto

Department of Surgery, Yachiyo Hospital, 2-2-7 Sumiyoshi-cho, Anjo, 446-8510, Japan.

Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery 2005

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The continuous hemivertical mattress suture technique for biliary-enteric anastomosis has not been well reported in the literature. We used the technique with a double-armed monofilament absorbable suture (Glycomer 631) for 32 anastomoses in 31 patients. There was one anastomotic leakage (3.1%). The mean follow-up period was 683 days, during which time no patient developed anastomotic stenosis or cholangitis. The technique provided satisfactory results with lower cost than one-layer interrupted sutures.

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Shigeaki Moriura, Ichiro Kobayashi, Kotaro Hattori, Taihei Oshiro, Mari Kawahara, Takatoshi Matsumoto. Continuous vertical hemimattress suture for biliary-enteric anastomosis. Journal of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery. 2005;12(6):467-9