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Patent No.:

US 10293553 B1

Date of Patent:

May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2015

Buttress brachytherapy and integrated staple line markers for margin identification

Applicant:

Covidien Lp, Mansfield, MA (US);

Inventors:

David Racenet, Killingworth, CT (US);

Gerald Hodgkinson, Guilford, CT (US);

William Powers, Cheshire, CT (US);

Assignee:

Covidien LP, Mansfield, MA (US);

Attorney:

Primary Examiner:

Robert F Long

Assistant Examiner:

Xavier A Madison

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

A61B 17/068 (2006.01); B29C 65/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/072 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

B29C 66/727 (2013.01); A61B 17/07292 (2013.01); B29C 65/002 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00893 (2013.01); A61B 2090/061 (2016.02); A61B 2090/0807 (2016.02); B29L 2031/753 (2013.01); Y10T 156/109 (2015.01);

Abstract

A surgical buttress for use in a surgical stapling apparatus is provided. The surgical buttress includes an elongate rectangular body portion defining a width; a nose portion integrally formed with and extending from a distal end of the body portion, the nose portion defining a width that is less than the width of the body portion; a neck portion integrally formed with and extending from a distal end of the nose portion, the neck portion defining a width; a head portion integrally formed with and connected to a distal end of the neck portion, the head portion defining a width; and a tail portion integrally formed with and extending from a proximal end of the body portion, the tail portion defining a width that is less that the width of the body portion. The surgical buttress is formed from a material having filaments. The surgical buttress include radioactive material.

Published as:

US2015245835A1; US10293553B2;

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