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Skin closure device for surgical procedures

  • US 6,007,564 A
  • Filed: 03/05/1998
  • Issued: 12/28/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A skin closure device comprising a flexible sheet of material having opposite side surfaces, spaced adhesive areas on one of the opposite side surfaces and a non adhesive area defined by and between the adhesive areas defining an area through which an incision is to be made leaving portions of the device adjacent opposite sides of the incision non adhesively attached to a patient'"'"'s skin thereby enabling the non adhesively attached portions of the flexible sheet adjacent opposite sides of the incision to be raised outwardly from the skin and folded back exposing areas of the skin adjacent to opposite sides of the incision, said portions also able to be brought together along the incision, andat least one adhesive member for adhesively engaging and joining together the portions of the flexible sheet on opposite sides of the incision thereby closing the skin closure device along the incision and up to the edges of the incision.

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