Editing Muslin (section)

=== Medicine ===
[[File:Semplici medicamenti per i soldati.jpg|thumb|A [[first-aid]] packet of 5m of "hydrophilic muslin", given to Italian soldiers in World War&nbsp;I]]

Surgeons use muslin [[gauze]] in [[cerebrovascular]] [[neurosurgery]] to wrap around [[aneurysm]]s or intracranial vessels at risk for bleeding.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pool |first=J. |year=1976 |title=Muslin gauze in intracranial vascular surgery. Technical note. |journal=Journal of Neurosurgery |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=127–128 |doi=10.3171/jns.1976.44.1.0127|pmid=1244428 }}</ref> The thought is that the gauze reinforces the artery and helps prevent rupture. It is often used for aneurysms that, due to their size or shape, cannot be microsurgically clipped or coiled.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Berger |first1=C. |last2=Hartmann |first2=M. |last3=Wildemann |first3=B. |date=March 2003 |title=Progressive visual loss due to a muslinoma – report of a case and review of the literature |journal=European Journal of Neurology |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=153–158 |doi=10.1046/j.1468-1331.2003.00546.x|pmid=12603290 |s2cid=883414 |doi-access=free }}</ref>