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Suture spring device

  • US 5,810,851 A
  • Filed: 03/05/1996
  • Issued: 09/22/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. In combination, a suture spring device comprising an elastic body of coiled configuration having a relaxed, contracted state and an elastically deformed, expanded state;

  • anda guide for holding said suture spring device in said elastically deformed, expanded state for positioning in anatomical tissue, said guide being removable from said suture spring device to permit said suture spring device to move resiliently from said expanded state toward said contracted state to apply a predetermined compressive force to the anatomical tissue.

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