Surgery – Instruments – Surgical mesh – connector – clip – clamp or band
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-07
2011-11-22
Erezo, Darwin (Department: 3773)
Surgery
Instruments
Surgical mesh, connector, clip, clamp or band
C606S143000, C606S153000, C606S157000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08062314
ABSTRACT:
A medical method includes sliding two substantially straight unconnected arms over a fold of body tissue such that a first arm contacts a first portion of the fold and a second arm contacts a second portion. Then, each arm is bent completely through the fold such that both of the arms compress the portions of the fold into contact with each other. Another method includes releasably coupling first and second substantially linear arms to a bridge, each of the arms having a substantially straight sliding portion and a bendable piercing portion. The arms are slid over opposing sides of two body tissue layers, the first arm sliding over the first layer and the second over the second layer. While the sliding portions of the arms remain substantially straight, each piercing portion is bent completely through the adjacent layer and halfway through the other layer to compress the two layers together.
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Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc.
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