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Title:
【発明の名称】経骨孔を通る縫合糸の移動を防止する方法及び装置
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2000516824
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
An improved method for attaching soft tissue to bone by passing a suture through an opening in the bone, e.g., a transosseous tunnel, and affixing the soft tissue with the suture. The improvement, for preventing the suture from migrating through the bone at the end of the opening, includes placing a eyelet into an end of the bone opening and passing the suture through the eyelet, as well as through the opening in the bone, in order to affix the soft tissue to the bone with the suture.

Inventors:
McDebit, Dennis
Nicholson, james
Application Number:
JP50990798A
Publication Date:
December 19, 2000
Filing Date:
August 08, 1997
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Innovative Devices Inc.
International Classes:
A01B1/22; A61B17/04; A61B17/68; A61B17/56; A61B17/82; A61F2/08; A61F2/28; B05C17/10; A61B17/32; A61B19/00; (IPC1-7): A61B17/04; A61B17/56; A61F2/08; A61F2/28
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Motohiro Kurauchi (1 outside)