Endoscopic needle with suture retriever

Details Endoscopic needle with suture retriever Endoscopic needle with suture retriever

1994-12-19

1996-03-19

Graysay, Tamara L.

Surgery

Instruments

Suture, ligature, elastic band or clip applier

606207, A61B 1704, A61B 1728

Patent

active

054999910

ABSTRACT:
A suture retriever and method for manipulating suture during endoscopic surgical procedures. The suture retriever has an elongated housing provided with a needle tip and a lateral opening situated near the tip. A suture engaging hook is extendable through the lateral opening and away from the axis of the housing in order to snare a suture. The hook is situated at the distal end of an elongated flexible support which is pre-formed in order to enable the hook to be laterally displaced from the axis of the needle tip when the support is moved distally relative to the lateral opening. When a suture is engaged by the hook, the latter is retracted proximally in order to place and hold the suture adjacent the lateral opening.

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Catalog, Needleless Arthroscopic Suturing, Ideal Suture Grasper, Innovasive Devices, Inc., 1994, 4 pgs.
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