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.
FORMER KMOV-TV ANCHOR DIES FROM INJURIES IN CAR CRASH: MARY PHELAN BAUDENDISTEL, WHO LEFT TV JOB TO GET MARRIED, `TOUCHED SO MANY PEOPLE'.(News)(Obituary\Profile\Mary Phelan Baudenistel)(Obituary) Former KMOV-TV (Channel 4) reporter and anchor Mary Phelan Baudendistel died Sunday morning from injuries suffered in an auto accident Saturday night. Baudendistel, who turned 37 on Dec. 5, died at 11:30 a.m. at St. John's Mercy Medical Center, and her family donated her organs.