Surgical suture

The present invention relates to a coating material for surgical sutures which comprises as essential ingredients a copolymer having repeating units of lactic acid and .epsilon.-caprolacton and calcium stearate; and a surgical suture comprising a lactic acid/.epsilon.-caprolacton copoymer in which a lactide/.epsilon.-caprolacton ratio is (70-85 mol %)/(30-15 mol %) and the number of .epsilon.-caprolacton repeating unit is 2.5 or greater on the average.

Packaging for surgical suture material

In a packaging (1) for surgical suture material, a thread duct (10) which runs in a wound manner is formed in a base (2), which thread duct opens at its first end (11) to a thread removal zone (3). The base (2) is provided with a cover. The thread removal zone (3) has a recess (24) in the base (2) adjacent to the first end (11) of the thread duct (10), adjacent to which recess a thread tray (26), which faces the first end (11) of the thread duct (10), is located.

Packaging for surgical suture

In a packaging (1) for surgical suture material (6), a thread duct which runs spiral-like is formed in a base (2) and opens at its first end to form a thread removal zone in the periphery area of the base (2). The base (2) is provided with a cover (4). An edge segment (3) of the base (2) can be folded down about a fold line provided in the region of the underside of the base (2) for access to the thread removal zone.