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US 11,464,507 B2Granted
Surgical instruments
OwnerLee D. Kaplaninventor
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Abstract
A surgical instrument having an anchor and a plug is capable of anchoring a suture. The suture anchor has an anchor body having a top surface, a bottom surface distal to the top surface, a transverse bore and a well, the well having an outer surface, an inner surface, and an inner bottom surface. The plug has a post, a head, and a bottom face. The anchor body and the anchor plus form a suture anchor. The suture anchor may be used during surgical procedures and can be used in the re-tensioning of a suture.
Claims3
A tissue anchor comprising:
- an anchor body comprising:
- a body outer surface;
- a body inner surface having threads;
- a bottom inner surface and a bottom outer surface, the body inner surface and the bottom inner surface defining a well;
- and
- a pair of opposed transverse openings extending through the anchor body from the body outer surface to the body inner surface proximal of the bottom inner surface;
- and grooves in the body outer surface aligned with ends of the transverse openings, the grooves extending from the transverse openings to a top surface of the anchor body;
- an anchor plug configured to be received by the well and having threads to threadingly engage the threads of the body inner surface, the threads extending to a distal end of the anchor plug, the anchor plug including a bottom surface;
- and
- one or more sutures received through the pair of opposed transverse openings.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.