Surgical suturing needle

Details Surgical suturing needle Surgical suturing needle

1997-09-24

2000-10-10

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Suturing needle

606223, 289 16, A61B 1706

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active

061297410

ABSTRACT:
In a surgical suturing needle having opposite pointed tips and a mid-section provided with an eye for receiving and retaining a surgical thread and being bent corresponding to a path of movement of the needle when transferred between the jaws of a suturing instrument, the pointed needle tips have a cone angle of between 25 and 35.degree. for non-traumatic piercing of the tissue to be sutured and, adjacent both of its opposite pointed tips, the needle has recessed surface areas to be engaged by pressure pins disposed in the jaws of the suturing instrument for firmly retaining and engaging the needle with the jaws in a predetermined position.

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patent: 5683416 (1997-11-01), McGregor et al.
patent: 5690652 (1997-11-01), Wurster et al.

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