In abdominal surgery lembe sutures refers to
Correct Answer: Sero muscular sutures
Description: It is used for Bowel anastomosis The word anastomosis comes from the Greek 'ana', without, and 'stoma', a mouth, reflecting the join of a tubular viscus (bowel) or vessel (usually aeries) after a resection or bypass procedure. Prior to the nineteenth century, intestinal surgery was limited to exteriorisation by means of a stoma, or closure of simple lacerations. Lembe then described his seromuscular suture technique for bowel anastomosis in 1826 Ref: Bailey and love 27th edition Pgno : 97
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