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Surgical mesh and method

  • US 4,452,245 A
  • Filed: 06/23/1982
  • Issued: 06/05/1984
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/06/1980
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A surgical mesh of monofilament threads free of water-leachable irritant impurities and being physiologically inert even in the presence of infection,having a tensile strength sufficient when doubled to withstand wound tension,the threads in the mesh having a diameter in the range of 5 to 15 mils,the mesh having 10 to 20 stitches per inch and being knitted in a continuous tubular shape with the threads being unattached to each other at their points of crossing,the mesh being flattened in use thereby providing continuous suture border edges on each side of the mesh free of selvedge edges.

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