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Figure 2: Images show the tip of each suture passer with needle, and the small images show a superior view of the tip's grasping arm during needle penetration of a tendon: (a) ExpresSew II, (b) Arthrex Scorpion, (c) Concept, and (d) ElitePass. The superior grasping arms of devices A and B were offset to the shaft (hump back design), although device B had a much larger offset. Device A also had an opening at the front of the superior arm of the grasping component (small fi gure). Also note that the angle the needle projects relative to the shaft of the device is the least perpendicular in device C

Figure 2: Images show the tip of each suture passer with needle, and the small images show a superior view of the tip's grasping arm during needle penetration of a tendon: (a) ExpresSew II, (b) Arthrex Scorpion, (c) Concept, and (d) ElitePass. The superior grasping arms of devices A and B were offset to the shaft (hump back design), although device B had a much larger offset. Device A also had an opening at the front of the superior arm of the grasping component (small fi gure). Also note that the angle the needle projects relative to the shaft of the device is the least perpendicular in device C