Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Surgical instruments
- Patent Title (中): 手术器械
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Application No.: US13486411Application Date: 2012-06-01
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Publication No.: US08663280B2Publication Date: 2014-03-04
- Inventor: Lee D. Kaplan
- Applicant: Lee D. Kaplan
- Agency: Foley & Lardner LLP
- Main IPC: A61B17/04
- IPC: A61B17/04

Abstract:
A method of using a knotless suture anchor includes boring a nest in a bone, driving the suture anchor into the nest, tensioning an unknotted suture; and securing the unknotted suture in an anchor body by contacting the unknotted suture with an inner bottom surface of the well and a bottom face of an anchor plug, where the suture anchor includes the anchor body including a well, a top surface, a bottom surface distal to the top surface, a transverse bore proximal to the inner bottom surface of the well, and he unknotted suture threaded through the transverse bore; where the well includes an outer surface; an inner surface; and the inner bottom surface; and where the anchor plug includes a post; and the bottom face.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120239088A1 SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS Public/Granted day:2012-09-20
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