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US 11,298,121 B2Granted
Medical apparatus and method for attaching a suture to a bone
AssigneeT.A.G. Medical Devices - Agriculture Cooperative Ltd.
InventorsRan Oren, Sumant G. Krishnan, Lee Ranon, Shai Nahmias, Aryeh Mirochinik
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Abstract
A method of forming a channel in a bone, the method comprising: providing a first bore in the bone; and forming, a second bore in the bone at a predefined angle from said first bore, using said first bore as a reference point for defining the location of the second bore in the bone, wherein the first and second bores intersect in the bone.
Claims3
A medical implement comprising:
- a hook for inserting in a first bore in a bone;
- and
- a passageway for placement at an entrance to a second bore in the bone, wherein said hook comprises a grasper extending therefrom, said grasper being adapted to grasp an end of a suture inserted through the passageway and through the second bore.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.