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.
Bob Denver, TV's Gilligan, Dies at 70. Bob Denver, the leading comedic castaway on TVâs Gilliganâs Island, died at age 70 of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer, says his agent. Denver passed away on Friday at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in North Carolina. Earlier this year, he had quadruple heart bypass surgery.