Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1975-05-13
1977-07-26
Apley, Richard J.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
A61B 1704
Patent
active
040376036
ABSTRACT:
A suture of a type particularly adaptable for employment for operations such as that referred to as "urethrovaginal fixation to Cooper's ligament in the treatment of stress incontinence." The suture is employed in the form of a loop with its end portions in interlocking engagement. The suture comprises an elongated, flexible, plastic-coated, thin steel band penetrated by longitudinal series of rectangular apertures with their greater dimensions extending longitudinally of the band. Both ends of the band have projecting shouldered tongues normally lying in the plane of the band. When the suture is formed into a loop with the end portions thereof in overlapping relationship, as occurs during the final stages of an operation such as that referred to above, the tongue at the end of the overlapping portion is twisted from its planar position and inserted in a selected aperture of the underlapping portion. Similarly, the tongue at the end of the underlapping portion is twisted and inserted in an aperture of the overlapping portion. In each case, after the insertion of the tongue, it is restored to its planar position with its shoulders contacting the face of the band.
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