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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1989
Richard B Caspari, Maidens, VA (US);
Arthur F Trott, Largo, FL (US);
F Barry Bays, Seminole, FL (US);
Concept, Inc., Largo, FL (US);
Abstract
A method of suturing tissue in the body particularly useful in arthroscopic surgery requiring only small incisions or portals for insertion of diagnostic and surgical instruments includes the steps of inserting an instrument in the body having a distal end carrying relatively movable jaws with openings therein, manipulating the jaws to penetrate the tissue to be sutured and to move the jaws to positions adjacent each other with the openings therein aligned, feeding suture material through the openings in the jaws, securing ends of the suture material to form a knot and moving the knot to a position adjacent the tissue.