Surgery – Instruments – Sutureless closure
Reexamination Certificate
2006-01-31
2006-01-31
Izaguirre, Isamel (Department: 3765)
Surgery
Instruments
Sutureless closure
Reexamination Certificate
active
06991643
ABSTRACT:
A multi-barbed apparatus is provided, and methods of use, for penetrating two sides of a wound and holding the edges in apposition. The apparatus may be inserted within a wound or underneath the skin, and mechanically adheres the two sides of the wound together. The apparatus includes a biocompatible substrate carrying a multiplicity of tissue penetrating barbs on a least one side thereof, and may be formed as a rigid or flexible sheet, tube or other shape.
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Izaguirre Isamel
Townsend and Townsend / and Crew LLP
USGI Medical Inc.
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