From ant to stapler – 100 years of mechanical suturing in surgery

Antoni Ścierski

doi:10.5114/wiitm.2010.14209

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From ant to stapler – 100 years of mechanical suturing in surgery

Antoni Ścierski

Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques 2010; 5 (2): 76-81

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/wiitm.2010.14209

Online publish date: 2010/07/01

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It has been 100 years since the first surgical stapler was built and used in surgery. The author presents a short anecdotal history of mechanical suturing.

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From ant to stapler – 100 years of mechanical suturing in surgery

Antoni Ścierski

mechanical sutures, history of the development of mechanical sutures