Suture anchor
Small implant (metal, PEEK, or bioabsorbable) preloaded with suture strand(s), fixed into bone.
How it is used
Reattaches a tendon or ligament to bone; the single most-used implant in shoulder arthroscopy (rotator cuff repair).
Sources
This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.
Image: Mikrotech, Wikimedia Commons. License CC BY-SA 4.0. View original source.
