The Biosteon® IntraLine® 5.5mm HA/PLLA Needled Suture Anchor with two #2 Force Fibre®, is a single use device. It is made from a resorbable composite which will gradually be resorbed into the body. This function however is patient dependent. The device is supplied sterile. The device is intended to secure a suture or sutures to bone that are then used to reattach damaged soft tissue in orthopaedic procedures in the shoulder, foot/ankle, knee, hand/wrist, elbow and pelvis. The device is supplied with stainless steel needles and polyethylene sutures.
A small, sterile, threaded rod with a slotted head typically used for internal orthopaedic fracture fixation by being screwed into bone to hold plates or nails to bone or to provide direct interfragmentary stabilization of bone, or it may fasten soft tissue to bone; it is made of a material that is chemically degraded and typically absorbed via natural body processes (e.g., degradable polymers). This device may be used in maxillofacial surgery. There are a number of kinds available: cortical, cancellous, malleolar, scaphoid, partially-threaded and fully-threaded. A "lag screw" can be any of these used to obtain compression across bone fragments.
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