Self-drilling surgical suture anchor
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Sep 11, 2001
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Jan 28, 2000
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Jan 28, 2000
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A device and method for anchoring a surgical suture in solid tissue, such as bone, which is implantable without prior drilling of a hole. The device for anchoring a surgical suture to a solid tissue is attachable to an external rotational drive and includes a self-drilling body to which surgical suture is attachable, an assembly including at least one flexible locking element, attached to or integrally formed therewith, capable of assuming both an open and closed configurations. The device is configured so that the assembly including at least one flexible locking element in the closed configuration is releasably engageable by the external rotational drive. The method for anchoring a surgical suture to a solid tissue includes the step of causing a self-drilling body to penetrate a soft tissue, the step of aligning the self-drilling body with an anchor point on a bone, the step of activating an external rotational drive, thereby causing the self-drilling body to rotate and penetrate the anchor point in the bone, and the step of actuating a mechanism for anchoring the self-drilling body in the bone at the anchor point.
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