Surgical skin closure
First Claim
1. A therapeutic device for skin lesions, comprising:
- (a) at least two flexible strip members with an adhesive coating on one side for securing the flexible strips to skin on opposing sides of a lesion,(b) at least one flap member for each flexible strip and secured to a portion of that flexible strip which is intended to lie alongside the lesion,(c) means for aligning the flaps to avoid lateral displacement of the skin on the opposing sides of a lesion to which the flexible strips are to be secured by the adhesive coatings,(d) means for drawing and holding the flexible strips closer to one another, in a direction extending across the lesion, after the strips have been secured to the skin on opposing sides of the lesion, to substantially close the skin over the lesion, and wherein the improvement comprises;
(e) a rectangular shaped buckle member having two opposite side bars around which the flaps are looped and corner portions, and(f) means for securing the looped ends of the flaps to their respective flexible members whereby,(g) the corner portions form said means for aligning the flaps, and the side bars together with the means for securing the looped ends of the flaps to their respective flexible members form said means for drawing and holding the flexible strips closer to one another.
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Abstract
A therapeutic device for skin lesions is provided in which adhesively coated flexible strips are stuck to skin on opposed sides of the lesion, aligned to prevent lateral displacement of the skin and drawn together by flaps to close the skin over the lesion. This device allows the lesion to heal without the formation of keloids. The flaps may be pulled around the side bars of a buckle member to draw the flexible strips to close skin over the lesion, and then the flaps stuck to the flexible strips to hold the skin closing the lesion. For surgical incisions a transparent, removable cover may be on the folded back flaps, and the surgical incision made through the transparent, removable cover, markings on the strips may be used to align them, and the lesion may be closed by sticking the flaps together in face-to-face relation.
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8 Claims
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1. A therapeutic device for skin lesions, comprising:
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(a) at least two flexible strip members with an adhesive coating on one side for securing the flexible strips to skin on opposing sides of a lesion, (b) at least one flap member for each flexible strip and secured to a portion of that flexible strip which is intended to lie alongside the lesion, (c) means for aligning the flaps to avoid lateral displacement of the skin on the opposing sides of a lesion to which the flexible strips are to be secured by the adhesive coatings, (d) means for drawing and holding the flexible strips closer to one another, in a direction extending across the lesion, after the strips have been secured to the skin on opposing sides of the lesion, to substantially close the skin over the lesion, and wherein the improvement comprises; (e) a rectangular shaped buckle member having two opposite side bars around which the flaps are looped and corner portions, and (f) means for securing the looped ends of the flaps to their respective flexible members whereby, (g) the corner portions form said means for aligning the flaps, and the side bars together with the means for securing the looped ends of the flaps to their respective flexible members form said means for drawing and holding the flexible strips closer to one another. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A therapeutic device for skin lesions, comprising:
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(a) at least two flexible strip members with an adhesive coating on one side for securing the flexible strips to skin on opposing sides of a lesion, (b) at least one flap member for each flexible strip and secured to a portion of that flexible strip which is intended to lie alongside the lesion, (c) means for aligning the flaps to avoid lateral displacement of the skin on the opposing sides of a lesion to which the flexible strips are to be secured by the adhesive coatings, and (d) means for drawing and holding the flexible strips closer to one another, in a direction extending across the lesion, after the strips have been secured to the skin on opposing sides of the lesion, to substantially close the skin over the lesion, (e) a buckle member having at least two side bars around which the flaps are looped and corner portions, and, (f) means for securing the looped ends of the flaps to their respective flexible members, whereby (g) the corner portions form said means for aligning the flaps, and the side bars together with the means for securing the looped ends of the flaps to their respective flexible members form said means for drawing and holding the flexible strips closer to one another, and wherein the improvement comprises; (h) a resilient, buckle cover member having a plurality of buckle engaging pins, and corresponding holes in the buckle member to the buckle engaging pins on the resilient, buckle cover member, whereby, (i) the resilient, buckle cover member may be sprung outwardly to locate the buckle engaging pins in the holes in the buckle member. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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5. A therapeutic device for skin lesions, comprising:
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(a) at least two flexible strip members with an adhesive coating on one side for securing the flexible strips to skin on opposing sides of a lesion, (b) at least one flap member for each flexible strip and secured to a portion of that flexible strip which is intended to lie alongside the lesion, (c) means for aligning the flaps to avoid lateral displacement of the skin on the opposing sides of a lesion to which the flexible strips are to be secured by the adhesive coatings, and (d) means for drawing and holding the flexible strips closer to one another, in a direction extending across the lesion, after the strips have been secured to the skin on opposing sides of the lesion, to substantially close the skin over the lesion, and wherein the improvement comprises; (e) the flaps are paired and are folded back on the flexible strips, said means for aligning the flaps to avoid lateral displacement of the skin comprises corresponding markings on the flaps, and a transparent, removable cover on the flaps securing the strips with a gap between them. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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