NEEDLE GUIDING ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPLANTATION OF TRANSFORMER CORE

A needle guiding arrangement, for guiding a surgical needle when applying sutures joining two skin surfaces inside an opening of a transformer core to implant the transformer core under the skin of a patient, the needle guiding arrangement comprising: a first needle guiding member; a second needle guiding member; and an alignment arrangement configured to align the first needle guiding member and the second needle guiding member on opposite sides of the opening of the transformer core along an alignment axis passing through the first needle guiding member, the opening of the transformer core and the second needle guiding member.