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Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
Registration No. 333-23677
Supplement
to
Prospectus dated May 16, 1997
Change in Selling Shareholders. Cherry Tree Ventures III, a Minnesota
limited partnership and the holder of 49,520 shares of the Common Stock of
United States Surgical Corporation which are the subject of the Prospectus dated
May 16, 1997, may make a distribution of a part of such shares to its partners
prior to their sale. Shares so distributed may subsequently be offered and sold
by individual partners subject to the terms and conditions of the Prospectus.
The identities of such partners and number of shares to be distributed and
subsequently offered and sold by each are as follows: Bell Atlantic Master
Pension Trust - 3,428, Policeman's Annuity & Benefit Fund-City of Chicago -
1,143, Dayton Hudson Corp. - 2,286, Pitt & Co. - 1,143, Anton J. Christianson -
4,125, Delaware State Employees Retirement Fund - 11,427, Horsley Bridge Fund
L.L.P. - 6,857, Gordon F. Stofer - 4,125, U.S. West Pension Trust - 5,714,
University of Minnesota Foundation - 3,428, Robert J. Keith, Jr. - 446 and
Andrew M. Hunter III - 446.
This Prospectus also covers certain sales by donees and pledgees of the
selling shareholders named in the Prospectus.
Supplement Dated June 24, 1997
