摘要 |
A surgical sponge useful for delicate surgical procedures is made by providing a strip of nonwoven fibers which are securely bonded against delamination, and bonding a plastic retrieval thread to the surface of the strip by heat-softening a portion of the thread to cause it to flow partially into the surface of the strip. The resulting sponge may also have a band of radiopaque material bonded to its surface by heat-softening the plastic material of the band. |