Chromic Gut Sutures
Chromic Gut Sterile Surgical Sutures from Ethicon Inc. Chromic gut is a plain gut that has been treated with chromium trioxide, a process that significantly increases its resistance to absorption in tissue. This gut suture is an absorbable, sterile surgical suture composed of purified connective tissue - mostly collagen - derived from either the serosal layer of beef (bovine) or the submucosal fibrous layer of sheep (ovine) intestines. Chromic gut is natural material suture and produces less tissue reaction