# Randomized Study Comparing Two Established Gastrointestinal Suture Techniques - One-layer-continuous Versus Double-layer-continuous Suture

> **NCT00996554** · PHASE3 · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Universitätsmedizin Mannheim** · enrollment: 252 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Colo-colonic Anastomoses
- Ileo-colonic Anastomoses

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** double layer-suture
- **PROCEDURE:** Single-layer suture

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00996554
- **Lead sponsor:** Universitätsmedizin Mannheim
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** PHASE3
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2004-01
- **Primary completion:** 2012-01
- **Final completion:** 2012-05
- **Target enrollment:** 252 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Feasibility reasons; recruitment was too slow.
- **Last updated:** 2015-12-08


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00996554

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00996554, "Randomized Study Comparing Two Established Gastrointestinal Suture Techniques - One-layer-continuous Versus Double-layer-continuous Suture". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-05 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00996554. Licensed CC0.

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