Surgical instrument for placing suture or fasteners

Details Surgical instrument for placing suture or fasteners Surgical instrument for placing suture or fasteners

1994-09-16

1996-10-08

Buiz, Michael Powell

Surgery

Instruments

Suture, ligature, elastic band or clip applier

606139, 606148, 112169, A61B 1700

Patent

active

055626858

ABSTRACT:
A surgical instrument for use in placing suture or fasteners in tissue at a remote location such as a laproscopic surgery is comprised of an elongated handle having a coiled projection at its distal end. The coiled projection is employed in penetrating and positioning a length of suture or fastener in tissue, for example, as in tissue proximation.

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