Surgery – Instruments – Suturing needle
Patent
1997-09-24
2000-10-10
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Suturing needle
606223, 289 16, A61B 1706
Patent
active
061297410
ABSTRACT:
In a surgical suturing needle having opposite pointed tips and a mid-section provided with an eye for receiving and retaining a surgical thread and being bent corresponding to a path of movement of the needle when transferred between the jaws of a suturing instrument, the pointed needle tips have a cone angle of between 25 and 35.degree. for non-traumatic piercing of the tissue to be sutured and, adjacent both of its opposite pointed tips, the needle has recessed surface areas to be engaged by pressure pins disposed in the jaws of the suturing instrument for firmly retaining and engaging the needle with the jaws in a predetermined position.
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Trapp Rainer
Wurster Helmut
Bach Klaus J.
Buiz Michael
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH
Pham Tina T. D.
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