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US 8,298,261 B2Granted
Medical device and procedure for attaching tissue to bone
AssigneeCore Essence Orthopaedics, LLC
InventorsShawn T. Huxel, David Gordon Levinsohn, Alan B. Miller
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Abstract
The invention pertains to medical devices for anchoring a suture engaged with soft tissue to a bone, the devices including tissue fastening medical devices, bone anchor medical devices, bone anchor driving tools and impactor tools, and procedures for using the same.
Claims20
A bone anchor device comprising:
- a main anchor body defining a longitudinal axis and having an external formation for engaging the main anchor body to a bone and a receiving formation;
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- an eyelet pin defining a longitudinal axis and having a passage substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis through which a length of suture can be threaded;
- wherein the eyelet pin is longitudinally insertable in the receiving formation from an open position, in which a suture passing through the eyelet would not be fixed in the passage and may translate within the passage, into a closed position, in which a suture passing through the passage in the eyelet pin would be fixed in the passage;
- a central pin disposed in the receiving formation and having a longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of the main body, the central pin having a proximal end and a distal end;
- and wherein the eyelet pin has a proximal end and a distal end and includes a distal longitudinal bore running between and open to each of the transverse passage and the distal end of the eyelet pin and wherein the interaction between the distal longitudinal bore of the eyelet pin and at least a portion of the central pin form an interference fit.
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