Soft tissue anchors and systems for implantation

Details Soft tissue anchors and systems for implantation Soft tissue anchors and systems for implantation

1994-10-13

1997-02-11

Jackson, Gary

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 75, 606104, 411495, A61B 1756

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056015585

ABSTRACT:
A soft tissue anchor implantation device having a bore along its longitudinal axis through which a guiding K-wire or other guiding devices may be freely drawn, and into which an anchor expanding pin may be wedged to expand the anchor body and lodge it securely in a hole in a bone. In one embodiment the anchor has an elongated body with proximal and distal ends. The proximal end is supplied with an enlarged head having an underside equipped with downwardly extending spikes for gripping soft tissue.

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patent: 5037422 (1991-08-01), Hayhurst et al.
patent: 5176682 (1993-01-01), Chow
patent: 5236445 (1993-08-01), Hayhurst et al.

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