Surgical needle and method of manufacturing a surgical needle

Method of manufacturing a surgical needle, comprising:

• manufacturing an elongate needle body from an elongate cylindrical blank,
• providing the needle body with at least one textured-profile lateral face,
• forming at least one textured-profile lateral face region of the at least one textured-profile lateral-face by embossing a textured profile on at least a portion of the at least one textured profile lateral face, the embossed textured profile comprising a plurality of well-defined, reproducible indentations, and
• forming a needle point at a distal end of the needle body, the at least one textured-profile lateral-face region extending as far as the needle point,
• wherein:
• the embossing of the textured profile occurs during a stamping process performed on the needle body;
• and
• the needle point is formed by electrochemical polishing of the distal end of the stamped needle body.