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  • Title: An absorbable purse-string suture around the prostatic capsule. A method to control the bleeding during transvesical prostatectomy.
    Author: Lehtonen T.
    Journal: Ann Chir Gynaecol; 1979; 68(4):130-2. PubMed ID: 394660.
    Abstract:
    8 patients with profuse bleeding from within the prostatic cavity during transvesical prostatectomy were treated with an absorbable purse-string suture around the prostatic capsule. The method, which is described, has been shown to be effective in control of operative and postoperative bleeding.
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