http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patent/EP-1289450-A1
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| classificationCPCInventive | http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentcpc/A61F2-08 |
| classificationIPCAdditional | http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentipc/A61F2-00 |
| classificationIPCInventive | http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentipc/A61F2-08 |
| filingDate | 2001-05-24-04:00^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> |
| inventor | http://rdf.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubchem/patentinventor/MD5_3a0f531f101d67cd5cc4269a3645d524 |
| publicationDate | 2003-03-12-04:00^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> |
| publicationNumber | EP-1289450-A1 |
| titleOfInvention | Method and apparatus for making a ligament repair using compressed tendons |
| abstract | A method and apparatus of making repairs with graft ligaments. In one form, the method for graft ligament reconstruction comprises (i) harvesting a graft ligament consisting entirely of soft tissue; (ii) compacting the graft ligament through compression so as to significantly reduce the cross-sectional area and increase the density of the collagen material of the graft ligament; and (iii) deploying the compressed graft ligament in the human body. In another form, the apparatus for graft ligament reconstruction comprises a graft ligament having a given diameter and a given cross-sectional area; and a compacting instrument having at least one surface to contact the graft ligament and to decrease the given cross-sectional area of the graft ligament to a reduced cross-sectional area, whereby the graft ligament with the decreased cross-sectional area may be positioned within a bone tunnel having a cross-sectional area smaller than the given cross-sectional area of the graft ligament in its original state. |
| priorityDate | 2000-05-24-04:00^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date> |
| type | http://data.epo.org/linked-data/def/patent/Publication |
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