Surgical Staplers

**Definition:** Fastening devices composed of steel-tantalum alloys used to close operative wounds, especially of the skin, which minimizes infection by not introducing a foreign body that would connect external and internal regions of the body. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995)

**Tree numbers:** - E07.858.700.750

**Synonyms:** - Stapler, Surgical - Staplers, Surgical - Surgical Stapler