COLLIER, JOHN P.,LINDH, DAVID, SR.,NAWROCKI, JESSE G.,HRISTOV, KRASIMIRA
申请号:
CA2613839
公开号:
CA2613839C
申请日:
2006.06.21
申请国别(地区):
CA
年份:
2014
代理人:
摘要:
A suture assembly and a method for making the same is provided. The sutureassembly includes a plurality of unbarbed filamentary elements intertwinedwith one another and at least one barbed filamentary element having alongitudinal axis and having plurality of barbs extending outwardly therefromin a first direction less than 90 degrees from the longitudinal axis.According to exemplary embodiments, the at least one barbed filamentary may beintertwined along its length with the plurality of unbarbed filamentaryelements, and the plurality of barbs extending outwardly beyond the unbarbedfilamentary elements, or the primary outer periphery of the at least onebarbed filamentary element may be contained within the intertwined unbarbedfilamentary elements with the plurality of barbs extending through andoutwardly from the plurality of unbarbed filamentary elements.