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TissueDB/Materials/Cigarette Paper

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▼This page is a material entry for the SELF Tissue Database.
It documents the tissue applications, practical guidance, and related simulators for this material to support low-cost, reproducible surgical simulator development.
An open booklet of cigarette papers with a single thin leaf drawn out
A single leaf of cigarette paper drawn from its booklet — the thin, semi-translucent paper used to simulate friable neonatal bowel tissue. Image: CC BY 3.0 by Chmee2, via Wikimedia Commons.
License: CC-BY-3.0 by Chmee2

Cigarette paper is a thin, lightweight, semi-translucent paper. It is delicate and friable, and becomes soft and pliable when moistened — properties that let it stand in for thin, fragile tissue in medical simulation. In the one simulator that uses it, two cigarettes have their ends sutured together to practise the enterocutaneous anastomosis step of colostomy creation in a newborn.

Tissues

Tissue Visual Tactile Simulator Notes
Neonatal bowel Neonatal Enterocutaneous Anastomosis Simulator A pair of cigarettes is the entire model.[1] The thin cigarette paper, especially when moistened, stands in for the fragile bowel tissue of a neonate for gentle-tissue-handling practice, and the module's skills exercise joins one pair with four interrupted sutures spaced around the ends.[2]








References

  1. ↑ Wong J, Udeigwe-Okeke C, Ameh E. Colostomy in Newborns training module. Appropedia, 2021. Available at: https://www.appropedia.org/Colostomy_in_Newborns. The moistening and pair-of-cigarettes statements are on the module's Phase 2 page: Neonatal Enterocutaneous Anastomosis Simulator. Not indexed in PubMed; primary source linked directly.
  2. ↑ Wong J, Udeigwe-Okeke C, Ameh E. Colostomy in Newborns training module: Gentle Tissue Handling Skills. Appropedia, 2021. https://www.appropedia.org/Colostomy_in_Newborns/Gentle_Tissue_Handling_Skills. Not indexed in PubMed; primary source linked directly.


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Created March 9, 2026 by Arturo Pelayo
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Cite as Arturopelayo (2026). "TissueDB/Materials/Cigarette Paper". Appropedia. Retrieved October 2, 2026.
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