In abdominal surgery lembe sutures refers to
Single layer suturing
Sero muscular sutures
All coat intestinal suturing
Skin suturing
It is used for Bowel anastomosis The word anastomosis comes from the Greek 'ana', without, and 'stoma', a mouth, reflecting the join of a tubular viscus (bowel) or vessel (usually aeries) after a resection or bypass procedure. Prior to the nineteenth century, intestinal surgery was limited to exteriorisation by means of a stoma, or closure of simple lacerations. Lembe then described his seromuscular suture technique for bowel anastomosis in 1826 Ref: Bailey and love 27th edition Pgno : 97
Urology