Orthopedic staple

Details Orthopedic staple Orthopedic staple

1985-04-08

1986-06-03

Mancene, Gene

Surgery

Truss

Perineal

128334R, 411457, 411470, 411461, A61F 228

Patent

active

045923469

ABSTRACT:
The staple comprises a top having four downwardly depending legs adjacent to its four corners. Two of the downwardly depending legs on the same side of the top are spaced inwardly from the corners relative to the remaining two legs so as to be transversely offset therefrom. The offset legs avoid the risk of splitting the bone when the staple bridges the bone "grain". In other words, the two legs will enter different cleavage planes of the bone rather than the same cleavage plane. Projections are provided on the underside of the top of the staple to aid in frictionally gripping and retaining a tendon or equivalent tie being held by the staple to a bone.

REFERENCES:
patent: 431175 (1890-07-01), Southwick
patent: 2058020 (1936-10-01), Jaffe
patent: 3479919 (1969-11-01), Lidsky
patent: 3896500 (1975-07-01), Rambert et al.
patent: 4229888 (1980-10-01), Rawson
patent: 4454875 (1984-06-01), Pratt et al.
Richards Mfg. Co., Memphis, Tenn., 11-15-1974.

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