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Deformable, absorbable surgical device

  • US 5,080,665 A
  • Filed: 07/06/1990
  • Issued: 01/14/1992
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/06/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An article of manufacture comprising a deformable at ambient temperature surgical clip or staple, the deformable at ambient temperature surgical clip or staple having a flexural strain at break of greater than about 25%, a flexural strain at yield of greater than about 3% and a Young'"'"'s modulus of greater than about 200,000 psi, and manufactured from a copolymer, the copolymer selected from the group consisting of a block and graft copolymer having a hard and soft phase, the hard phase of said copolymer having a glass transition temperature above ambient temperature and comprising a plurality of first linkages selected from the group consisting of glycolic acid ester and lactic acid ester linkages, and mixtures thereof, and the soft phase of said copolymer having a glass transition temperature below ambient temperature and comprising a plurality of second linkages selected from the group consisting of 1,3-dioxan-2-one;

  • 1,4-dioxan-2-one and ε

    -caprolactone linkages, the plurality of first linkages comprising at least about 50 up to about 90 mole percent of the copolymer.

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