Surgical suture for laparoscopic port site closure device
AssigneeKi Seong Kim
InventorKi Seong KIM
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Abstract
A surgical suture is caught in a needle tip that is pierced through a body tissue; and when the needle is withdrawn, the surgical suture is pulled out along a path through which the needle was pierced into the tissue, and the surgical suture is tied outside a patient's body. The surgical suture for the laparoscopic port site closure device, wherein the laparoscopic port site closure device is in a tube shape for being introduced into a port site, includes: a tubular body provided with needle guides that face each other and guide insertion of a needle; wings mounted to a lower portion of the tubular body such that the wings are opened and closed through a cam method; and an operating stick penetrating through the tubular body to operate the wings to be opened and to be closed.
Claims4
Surgical suture for a laparoscopic port site closure device, wherein the laparoscopic port site closure device includes:
- a tubular body;
- wings being opened and closed through a cam method;
- and an operating stick penetrating through the tubular body to operate the wings by being rotated to push and open the wings and to pull and close the wings by being rotated reversely, the laparoscopic port site closure device being configured such that surgical suture is threaded through the wings so as to pull the surgical suture out of a patient's body, wherein
- the surgical suture comprises a spiral coil connected to each end of the surgical suture, wherein the surgical suture is folded and received in a case to be easily unfolded toward outside when being pulled out of the case.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.