Fastener for fastening a muscle tendon to a bone

Details Fastener for fastening a muscle tendon to a bone Fastener for fastening a muscle tendon to a bone

1998-01-15

1999-11-09

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Sutureless closure

606 72, 606213, 606232, A61B 1704

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059805579

ABSTRACT:
A fastener for fastening a muscle tendon and muscle to a bone. The fastener has a shank designed to be inserted through a tendon and into a channel bored through a bone. A fastening head terminates the shank and is designed to come into abutment against the muscle and muscle tendon to hold the muscle and uscle tendon against the bone. A locking member is designed to cooperate with the shank at the distal end of the shank that emerges from a tunnel in bone in order to lock the shank end fastening head relative to the bone and to the muscletendon and muscle.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4532926 (1985-08-01), O'Holla
patent: 5478353 (1995-12-01), Yoon
patent: 5520691 (1996-05-01), Branch

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