SURGICAL FASTENERS AND DEVICES FOR SURGICAL FASTENING
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Sep 23, 2010
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Aug 17, 2008
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Aug 16, 2007
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Disclosed is a surgical fastener having a first element, or crown, defining an axis of the fastener. Each prong of the fastener has a protuberance at one end that is received in a depression around an edge of the first element and rotatable in the depression and has a tip at a second end. In an undeployed configuration, each prong passes through a slot of the second element and the tip of each prong is at a first distance from the axis. In a deployed configuration, each prong passes through the prong's slot of the second element, and the tip of each prong is at a second distance from the axis that is greater than the first distance. Also disclosed is a system for surgical fastening including one or more surgical fasteners as disclosed herein and a surgical fastening device configured to deploy the fasteners.
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