摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a surgical stapler to mold or machine a structure into jaws themselves to facilitate attachment of correspondingly structured buttress materials and to provide so as not to interfere with operation of a knife blade implemented in the jaws.SOLUTION: A surgical stapler is provided having a pair of jaws including a staple-containing cartridge and an anvil. Buttress material is releasably affixed to the staple-containing cartridge and the anvil. One of the jaws includes a pair of longitudinal projections at a first end of the jaw which are configured to frictionally engage corresponding slots in a first end the buttress material. One of the jaws includes a post at a second end of the jaw. The buttress material includes a hole in a second end of the buttress material for receipt of the post. |