| One patient required oversewing of a small bowel serosal tear caused at the time of surgery by the Hem-o-Lok clip applier. |
| However, it is possible that it may occur simply as a result of oversewing a bowel segment at the time of anastomosis. |
| After identifying and oversewing the bleeding vessel, this patient made an otherwise uneventful recovery. |
| The majority of operations described involved cutting the Fallopian tube and oversewing the cut end so that it was hidden. |
| Later it became increasingly common for surgeons to perform a resection of the tumour, oversewing the rectal stump, and fashioning an end colostomy as the initial operation. |
