Access platform for internal mammary dissection

Details Access platform for internal mammary dissection Access platform for internal mammary dissection

1996-03-20

1999-11-02

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Internal pressure applicator

600201, 600214, A61B 1702

Patent

active

059761717

ABSTRACT:
An access platform having a first and a second blade interconnected to a spreader member that laterally drives the blades apart or together and support pads interconnected to a blade. A torsional member is operably interconnected to a blade and the spreader member and is used to vertically displace the interconnected blade and, thus, increase a surgeon's working space and visual access for the dissection of an internal mammary artery. A tissue retractor interconnected to the blades and is used to draw the soft tissue around an incision away from the surgeon's working area.

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