Surgical device for complex suturing fibrous tissues
OwnerPatrick J. McMahoninventor
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Instruments for placing complex sutures into animal tissues, including instruments useful in arthroscopic surgical techniques which minimize incision size. The instruments manipulate tissue by, for example, rolling, wrinkling, folding, bending, or tucking the tissue so that a needle can be placed through the tissue more than once. Sutures are placed, for example from top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top with a single pass of a straight needle. In addition, the instruments can roll, wrinkle, fold, bend, or tuck the flat tissue so that a needle can be placed through the tissue more than once and a loop can be sutured through the tissue so that another suture can pass through resulting in sewing both sides of the tissue. This will allow surgeons to place complex locking and grasping suture configurations that will significantly improve the repair.
A surgical instrument for placing complex sutures into animal tissues, the surgical instrument comprising:
A surgical instrument for placing complex sutures into animal tissues having three tips:
A surgical instrument for placing complex sutures into animal tissues, the surgical instrument comprising:
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