Suture anchor with reversible expansion
AssigneeTornier SAS
InventorsAlain Tornier, Francois Bonnomet
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Abstract
A suture anchor for fixing soft tissues against a bone, including a hollow body having expanding elements limited in their plastic deformation, when an external traction force (T) is applied for fixing the suture anchor in the bone by stop means and wherein the expanding elements are reversibly deformed when another external thrust force (P) is applied thereto so that the suture anchor may be removed from the bone.
Claims15
A suture anchor allowing the fixation of soft tissues against a bone which includes a monobloc hollow body (2) having expansion means (6, 7) which, under the effect of a first external tractive force (T) for the fixation of the suture anchor to the bone, are limited by stop means (14) in a plastic deformation, and the deformation of said expansion means (6, 7) being reversible by an external thrust force (P) applied thereto, which allows the removal of the suture anchor from the bone.
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