This Article  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

F. A. Williamson-Noble
27 Harley St. London, England

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1955;53(1):142.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

To the Editor:

—On page 129 of the Archives for July, 1954, is an article by Abraham J. Lanchner, M.D., entitled "A New Preplaced Corneal Suture." At the end of the article is a solitary reference to S. Baldino, who is credited with having devised a suture technique of a somewhat similar character.

If Dr. Lanchner consults the Acta concilium ophthalmologicum, 1950, Vol. 2, p. 1090, he will find a suture technique of a character exactly similar to that which he describes as new.

I have used this method now for several years and have every reason to agree with his statement that it "has certain advantages over other sutures." . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?