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.
Reynolds returned to the BOQ on Christmas morning to see what she could salvage. Two military personnel were killed in the BOQ blast and 100 Americans, Australians and Vietnamese were injured, according to the second edition of The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict.