Surgery – Instruments – Sutureless closure
Patent
1991-02-13
1992-10-20
Pellegrino, Stephen C.
Surgery
Instruments
Sutureless closure
606 8, 606214, 606 40, 128898, A61B 1700
Patent
active
051566133
ABSTRACT:
A method of joining or reconstructing biological tissue which comprises applying optical energy to the biological tissue while providing a collagen filler material thereto; denaturing the collagen filler material and biological tissue with the optical energy to cause joining of the collagen filler material and biological tissue, thus joining or reconstructing such tissue.
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Interface Biomedical Laboratories Corp.
Jackson Gary
Pellegrino Stephen C.
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