Sterile surgical needle-suture combination.

摘要

A needle-suture combination (20) with reduced diameter portion (26) of the suture (24) being attached to the blunt end (23) of the needle (21). The maximum diameter of the suture (24) being almost the same but no larger than the diameter of the blunt end (23) of the needle (21) and the reduced diameter portion (26) of the suture (24) having a tensile strength greater than the remainder of the suture (24).