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Surgical closure means for anastomotic device
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1990-12-18
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Granted: 1992-02-18
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Expires: 2010-12-18
Abstract
Abstract The structure of either elongated strips or annuli for linear or tubular surgical joiner are male and female members that lock at their distal ends; have abutting planar faces at their intermediate sections for stabilizing purposes; are configured to form a void at their proximal portions for accommodating inflammation and swelling of the surgically joined parts; and have suturing pins that are each annularly slotted at their distal ends and project from a proximal edge face of one of the members, extend through partially everted parts to be surgically joined and through securing panel means formed in the opposed proximal part of the second of the members; the panel edges releasably locking into a selected annular slot for controlling clamp pressure.
Inventors
- 👤 Fusen H. Chen
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 08:07
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61B; A61B17/00; A61B17/11; A61B2017/1107; A61B2017/1132
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
216 words
Surgical closure means comprising: a pair of flexible members; means for locking said members into functional association; said members being configured to have operatively associated free ends that are removed from said means for locking and are adapted to clamp organ or body parts to be surgically joined for said closure when said members are in said functional association; pin means projecting freely from at least one of said free ends and adapted for suturing said organ or body parts for said closure; a plurality of longitudinally spaced annular slots formed at the free end portion of said pin means; relatively thinned wall means formed in a section of the second of said free ends of the flexible members and adapted to receive said slotted pin portion therethrough when the members are in said functional association; means operatively associated with said slot means for securing the pin means with respect to the organ or body parts being sutured and with respect to said second member; said securing means being formed in said thinned wall section; and said securing means and at least a selected one of the slot means comprising means to control the extent of pressure exerted on the surgically joined organ or body parts by said associated operatively free ends of the flexible members.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
216 words
Surgical closure means comprising: a pair of flexible members; means for locking said members into functional association; said members being configured to have operatively associated free ends that are removed from said means for locking and are adapted to clamp organ or body parts to be surgically joined for said closure when said members are in said functional association; pin means projecting freely from at least one of said free ends and adapted for suturing said organ or body parts for said closure; a plurality of longitudinally spaced annular slots formed at the free end portion of said pin means; relatively thinned wall means formed in a section of the second of said free ends of the flexible members and adapted to receive said slotted pin portion therethrough when the members are in said functional association; means operatively associated with said slot means for securing the pin means with respect to the organ or body parts being sutured and with respect to said second member; said securing means being formed in said thinned wall section; and said securing means and at least a selected one of the slot means comprising means to control the extent of pressure exerted on the surgically joined organ or body parts by said associated operatively free ends of the flexible members.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
40 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 1, wherein said securing means are flexible panels that are formed by crisscross slits in said thinned wall section and the edges of which engage in said at least one of the annular slots.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
17 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 2, wherein said members are formed as annuli adapted for anastomosis.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
22 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 2, wherein said members are elongated and adapted for closure of a linear wound or opening.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
62 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 2, wherein: a portion of each said free end of the flexible members is formed as an inwardly facing channel in a flexible wall; and in said functional association of the members, the channels are opposed and form a void that bounds the area of organ or body wall joinder and is adapted to accommodate swelling.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
17 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 5, wherein said members are formed as annuli adapted for anastomosis.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
22 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 5, wherein said members are elongated and adapted for closure of a linear wound or opening
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
38 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 5, wherein each said member has a planar surface at an intermediate section thereof and said surfaces abut, when the members are in said functional association, to thereby stabilize such functional association.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
17 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 8, wherein said members are formed as annuli adapted for anastomosis.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
22 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 8, wherein said members are elongated and adapted for closure of a linear wound or opening.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
23 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 8, wherein said means for locking the members into functional association are integrals of the member structures.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
23 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 2, wherein said means for locking the members into functional association are integrals of the member structures.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
38 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 1, wherein each said member has a planar surface at an intermediate section thereof and said surfaces abut, when the members are in said functional association, to thereby stabilize such functional association.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
62 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 13, wherein: a portion of each said free end of the flexible members is formed as an inwardly facing channel in a flexible wall; and in said functional association of the members, the channels are opposed and form a void that bounds the area of organ or body wall joinder and is adapted to accommodate swelling.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
23 words
Surgical closure means as in claim 1, wherein said means for locking the members into functional association are integrals of the member structures.
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