STRUCTURAL BODY CONTAINING WOUND TREATMENT SUBSTANCE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surgical instrument and a structural body configured so as to apply a surgical mechanical fastener combined with a non-mechanical biocompatible wound treatment substance to enhance characteristics of tissue repaired or connected at an objective surgical operation location.;SOLUTION: In one embodiment of this invention, an anvil assembly for a circular stapler is provided. The anvil assembly is equipped with an anvil head configured so as to support an anvil plate, a shaft extended from the anvil head and configured so as to selectively engage with a connection member of the circular stapler, an anvil plate operably connected with the anvil head to define a plurality of staple forming pockets, and a wound treatment substance disposed in each staple forming pocket of the anvil plate.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI