Surgery – Instruments – Suture – ligature – elastic band or clip applier
Patent
1992-09-16
1994-02-08
Pellegrino, Stephen C.
Surgery
Instruments
Suture, ligature, elastic band or clip applier
606139, 606 1, A61B 1700
Patent
active
052844854
ABSTRACT:
An improved endoscopic device of the type having a surgical needle; a hollow tube; and a filamentary strand attached at its distal end to the surgical needle, and slideably engaged at its proximal end about the tube with a partially tightened slip knot. The improvement in the device relates to means for pulling the filamentary strand through the hollow tube proximally when the surgical needle is detached from the strand. The device can be used to approximate tissue or ligate a vessel.
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Endoknot, Suture Made with Chromic Gut, Ethicon, Inc. 1991.
Kammerer Gene W.
Semertzides John N.
Ethicon Inc.
Goodwin Matthew S.
Pellegrino Stephen C.
Schmidt Jeffrey A.
Skula Emil Richard
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