Suture coated with a polyetheramide

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1990-11-14

1992-04-07

Pellegrino, Stephen C.

Surgery

Instruments

Suture or ligature

525420, 427 2, 428375, A61B 1700, C08F28304, D02G 300

Patent

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051024209

ABSTRACT:
A surgical suture having a coating thereon of a block poly(ether-co-amide), and a method for improving the knot tiedown performance of a suture by first coating a block poly(ether-co-amide) solution of a block poly(ether-co-amide) onto the surface of the suture and then removing the solvent from the coated suture.

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Flesher, Jr., High Performance Polymers: Their Origin and Development, pp. 401-408, Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc., (1986).

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