Sutures, stitches and staples are used for the same purpose - to close wounds or surgical incisions - but they are not the same. For sutures, doctors use a thread or strand of material to perform wound closure. The term stitches refers to the surgical procedure or process of closing a wound with sutures.
Visit Guest Book. LOS ANGELES (AP) â Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has died of complications related to lung cancer, his record company announced Monday. He was 69.
Cranberry Township woman dies in auto accident. JACKSON TWP â Police said a 66-year-old Cranberry Township woman died Tuesday morning after driving through a guardrail and into an embankment off Route 19. Chief Terry Seilhamer identified the woman as Sharon Petrich.