Surgical fastener cartridge with improved body tissue cutting knife assembly.

摘要

A surgical fastener cartridge possesses an improved body tissue cutting knife assembly (90). The knife element (91) of the assembly is held in permanent and irreversible locking engagement with a knife holder (92) which is advantageously formed from a single piece of thermoplastic resin possessing two opposed sides (92a, 92b) joined through at least one flexible hinge element (97a-e).