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.
Johnny Cash, the rumble-voiced Man in Black who served for six decades as country music's gentle giant, has died from respiratory failure due to complications from diabetes. He was 71. The singer had been released from the hospital Wednesday after a two-week stay for an undisclosed stomach illness.