%0 Journal Article %T From ant to stapler ¨C 100 years of mechanical suturing in surgery %A Antoni £¿cierski %J Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques %D 2010 %I Termedia Publishing House %X It has been 100 years since the first surgical stapler was built and used in surgery. The author presents a short anecdotalhistory of mechanical suturing. %K mechanical sutures %K history of the development of mechanical sutures %U http://www.termedia.pl/Review-paper-From-ant-to-stapler-8211-100-years-of-mechanical-suturing-in-surgery,42,14929,1,0.html