A61B 2018/00273
Anchoring means for temporary attachment of a device to tissue
Official title: {Anchoring means for temporary attachment of a device to tissue}
A61B2018/00273 (Anchoring means for temporary attachment of a device to tissue) appears on 1,752 US grants and 2,427 published applications in this corpus.
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