Patent ID: 8317825

Claim:
A method of conducting biological materials in meniscal tissue, the method comprising: providing a conduit device having a first end and a second end and an externally threaded elongated body extending from the first end to the second end along a longitudinal axis of the conduit device, the elongated body having a plurality of external longitudinal channels, each longitudinal channel extending from the first end to the second end along the longitudinal axis, each longitudinal channel being open to an outer surface of the elongated body and having a keyhole-shaped cross-section with a substantially circular portion and a slot-like opening to the outer surface of the elongated body, each slot-like opening being narrower that a width of each circular portion; implanting the conduit device through the meniscal tissue such that each longitudinal channel extends between a first area of the meniscal tissue having a first vascularity and a second area of the meniscal tissue having a second vascularity different from the first vascularity; and delivering via an external cannula biological materials from the first area to the second area along and within the circular portion of each longitudinal channel from the first end toward the second end of the conduit device.