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US 12,011,157 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.
Claims10
A method, comprising:
- securing a suture to a tissue;
- inserting an anchor body into a bone, the anchor body having a transverse bore in which the suture is received and grooves in a body outer surface of the anchor body aligned with an end of the transverse bore and extending from the transverse bore to a top surface of the anchor body, the anchor body having a body inner surface and a bottom inner surface defining a well, the transverse bore extending through the anchor body proximal of the bottom inner surface;
- tensioning the suture received within the transverse bore and secured to the tissue;
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- securing the suture in the bone by advancing an anchor plug positioned in the well via threads on the anchor plug that are configured to engage threads of the body inner surface toward the well to secure the suture between the bottom inner surface of the well and a bottom surface of the anchor plug, the threads extending to an overall end of the anchor plug.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.