Suture

Details Suture Suture

1993-10-12

1995-06-20

Jackson, Gary

Surgery

Instruments

Suture or ligature

606215, 606230, A61B 1700

Patent

active

054257476

ABSTRACT:
A suture made of bioabsorbable material is disclosed having a central body member with a plurality of lateral members extending perpendicularly therefrom and in the same general plane with the central body member, each lateral member having a plurality of barb members extending at an acute angle therefrom, allowing the lateral members to be inserted laterally into two sides of a cut in body tissue so that the two sides are joined at an incision junction at the central body member and are retained securely and non-withdrawably in the body tissue by the barb members on such lateral members. Also disclosed is a method for utilizing the suture of this invention.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3123077 (1964-03-01), Alcamo
patent: 4467805 (1984-08-01), Fukuda
patent: 4621639 (1986-11-01), Transue et al.
patent: 5222976 (1993-06-01), Yoon

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