Surgical probe with tips for plastic lens implantation in the ey

Details Surgical probe with tips for plastic lens implantation in the ey Surgical probe with tips for plastic lens implantation in the ey

1995-03-03

1996-11-05

Rimell, Sam

Surgery

Instruments

Means for removing, inserting or aiding in the removal or...

623 6, A61F 900

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055711138

ABSTRACT:
A surgical apparatus useful for eye surgery, wherein an incision is made in the eye corneo-scleral tissue, and via which a plastic lens is to be introduced into an eye lens zone in a capsule from which a natural lens has been removed, the lens having haptic structure including haptics attached thereto, the apparatus comprising an elongated probe having an axis and at least three discrete tips projecting at one end of the probe, the tips spaced about the axis to receive the lens for probe manipulation and positioning of the haptic and lens in the capsule; and a tube receiving the probe, with the tips positioned to displace the haptics and lens, in the tube.

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