Surgery – Instruments – Surgical mesh – connector – clip – clamp or band
Patent
1990-06-26
1991-09-17
Isabella, David J.
Surgery
Instruments
Surgical mesh, connector, clip, clamp or band
606138, 606143, A61B 1700
Patent
active
050491539
ABSTRACT:
A surgical instrument comprises an elongate flexible forceps member having a diameter sufficiently small so that the forceps member is slidably insertable into a biopsy channel extending longitudinally through a flexible tubular endscope member, the forceps member being provided at a distal end with a pair of forceps jaws each formed on an inwardly facing surface with a longitudinally extending groove. A staple having a spring bias construction tending to force the staple into an opened configuration is disposed in a closed prefiring configuration between the jaws and has a pair of legs each disposed in the closed prefiring configuration in a respective one of the grooves in the forceps jaws. The provided with locking elements for locking the staple in a closed postfiring configuration.
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Nakao Naomi L.
Wilk Peter J.
Burke Elizabeth M.
Coleman Henry D.
Isabella David J.
Sudol R. Neil
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