Endoscope/resectoscope and shield therefor

Details Endoscope/resectoscope and shield therefor Endoscope/resectoscope and shield therefor

1990-04-26

1991-06-18

Grieb, William H.

Surgery

Truss

Perineal

606 46, A61B 100

Patent

active

050242121

ABSTRACT:
An endoscope, in particular a resectoscope, for excising tissue, having a barrel insertable into a body cavity for feeding in and draining out an irrigating liquid and for carrying a working element which can be actuated from the proximal end of the endoscope and whose field of activity can be monitored visually through an endoscope telescope positioned at the proximal end of the endoscope, in which to protect a surgeon, a protective shield can be releasably secured on a lengthwise segment of the endoscope, namely on a lengthwise segment comprising those segments of the working element and of the endoscope telescope which project proximally from the barrel of the endoscope.

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patent: 4422852 (1983-12-01), Mathias
patent: 4430996 (1984-02-01), Bonnet
patent: 4834068 (1989-05-01), Gottesman
patent: 4848322 (1989-07-01), Dash et al.

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