Suture coated with a copolymer coating composition

Details Suture coated with a copolymer coating composition Suture coated with a copolymer coating composition

1990-11-08

1992-03-31

Pellegrino, Stephen C.

Surgery

Instruments

Suture or ligature

525411, 528354, 427 2, A61B 1700

Patent

active

051004330

ABSTRACT:
A surgical suture having a coating thereon of a copolymer of a predominant amount of p-dioxanone and the balance .epsilon.-caprolactone, and a method for improving the knot tiedown performance of a suture by first coating a solution of the coating copolymer onto the surface of the suture and then removing the solvent from the coated suture.

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