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Abstract

An improved surgical instrument is described. The instrument comprises a housing. The housing has a handle for activating a force, and a link for translating the force. The instrument also comprises a probe. The probe has jaws or an anvil for holding a single wound closure element, a movable crimp bar for crimping the single closure element in the jaw or anvil, the proximal end of the crimp bar being connected to the distal end of the link, a spring for advancing a plurality of wound closure elements, and an injector for loading a single wound closure element, from the plurality, into the jaws or onto the anvil. The improvement comprises the link indirectly connected to the spring and the injector to integrally effect the crimp bar, spring and injector. The surgical instrument can be a ligating instrument.

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