Surgery – Instruments – Cutting – puncturing or piercing
Patent
1992-05-08
1994-04-19
Pellegrino, Stephen C.
Surgery
Instruments
Cutting, puncturing or piercing
30134, 30241, A61B 1700
Patent
active
053041909
ABSTRACT:
An endoscopic cutting apparatus for use in endoscopic surgical procedures. The apparatus has a frame having a proximal end and a distal end. A handle is attached to the proximal end of the frame. Hook means are mounted to the distal end of the frame for engaging tissue or blood vessels. The hook means has a track means. Cutting blade means are mounted to said frame and are movable within said track means to cut tissue or blood vessels engaged within said hook means. Actuating means are mounted to the frame to actuate the cutting means in order to cut tissue or blood vessels engages within said hook means. Optional rotation means are mounted to the frame to allow the hook means and cutting means to rotate with respect to the frame. Optional extension means extend and retract the hook means into and out of the distal end of the frame.
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Brochure by MTI Corporation, for precision arthroscopic instruments and multi-purpose knives.
Advertisement by DaVinci Medical for a hook cutter, appearing in Surgical Laparoscopy and Endoscopy, vol. 1, No. 3 (1991), Raven Press.
Davison Mark
Kelly William D.
Nobis Rudolph H.
Reckelhoff Jerome E.
Ethicon Inc.
Lewis William
Pellegrino Stephen C.
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