Methods and apparatus for preventing migration of sutures through transosseous tunnels
US5860978A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 9, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jan 19, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 9, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S623/902
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
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.
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