Fastener for fastening a muscle tendon to a bone
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsAlain Iserin, Gilles Walsch
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Abstract
A fastener for fastening a muscle tendon and muscle to a bone. The fastener has a shank designed to be inserted through a tendon and into a channel bored through a bone. A fastening head terminates the shank and is designed to come into abutment against the muscle and muscle tendon to hold the muscle and uscle tendon against the bone. A locking member is designed to cooperate with the shank at the distal end of the shank that emerges from a tunnel in bone in order to lock the shank end fastening head relative to the bone and to the muscletendon and muscle.
Claims8
A fastener for fastening a muscle tendon to a bone, said fastener comprising:
- a shank designed to be inserted through the tendon and through the channel bored through a bone, said shank having a proximal end and a distal end;
- a fastening head mounted to the proximal end of said shank such that the head is capable of swivel movement, said head having a hemispherical cavity wherein said shank is designed to come into abutment against the muscle to hold it against the bone;
- and a locking member designed to co-operate with the shank at the distal end thereof that emerges from the tunnel through the bone to lock said shank and its head relative to the bone and to the muscle,
- wherein the proximal end of the shank is terminated by a ball on which the fastening head is swivel-mounted by mating the ball with the hemispherical cavity of the fastening head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.