Surgery – Instruments – Means for removing tonsils – adenoids or polyps
Patent
1995-06-07
1997-10-28
Hindenburg, Max
Surgery
Instruments
Means for removing tonsils, adenoids or polyps
606114, A61B 1700
Patent
active
056813244
ABSTRACT:
A surgical tissue retrieval instrument has a collapsible pouch at the distal end of an elongated support tube for retrieving internal body tissue through a trocar tube. The instrument includes a belt which is formed into a loop slidably attached about the open end of the pouch. The belt is slidably extendable through the support tube for expanding the open end of the pouch to receive the tissue and retractable into the support tube for drawing the open end of the pouch closed to enclose the tissue in the pouch. The belt has an oblong, e.g., rectangular, cross section oriented with its larger cross-sectional dimension perpendicular to the plane of the loop to provide stability at the open end of the pouch and to enable use of the pouch in a scoop-like manner to place the tissue therein. A portion of the belt is thermally set into a curved configuration to urge the loop into a normally expanded shape with the belt extended from the distal end of the support tube. A belt actuator mechanism includes a reciprocating finger grip and a ratchet mechanism which operates in a toggle-like manner to advance and retract the belt along the support tube to open and close the pouch. The pouch has an elongated tapered shape to align the tissue with the length or depth of the pouch to facilitate the withdrawal of the pouch and tissue through an incision at the trocar site.
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Frederick Royce
Howard Barbara
Kammerer Gene W.
Walker Edd
Ethicon Inc.
Hindenburg Max
Skula Emil Richard
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