Surgical sutures
AssigneeDaikin Kogyo Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakeaki Nakajima, Tatsushiro Yoshimura, Yukihiko Karasawa
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Abstract
A surgical suture which is filled with copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and another polymerizable monomer and has outstanding properties, and a process for preparing the same.
Claims3
A surgical suture characterized in that a multifilamentous suture has incorporated in its interstices a copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and the other copolymerizable monomer in an amount of about 1% to about 30% by weight based on the weight of the multifilamentous suture, the copolymer being of 100-500 m.mu. in mean particle size, and that the portion of the copolymer present at least in the vicinity of the surface of the suture has been baked.
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