Invitation to the Annual General Meeting
Solothurn/Switzerland, March 29, 2005April 21, 2005 at 4 pm CET
Annual General Meeting of shareholders in Basel
at the "Kongresszentrum Messe Basel", room San Francisco
For further information please contact
Peter Fehlmann, Investor Relations, Synthes, Inc.
Phone: +41 32 720 48 10 , Fax: +41 32 720 48 11
e-mail: ir.info@synthes.com