Surgery – Instruments – Means for removing – inserting or aiding in the removal or...
Patent
1993-08-20
1995-03-07
Green, Randall L.
Surgery
Instruments
Means for removing, inserting or aiding in the removal or...
606205, 623 6, A61F 900
Patent
active
053953789
ABSTRACT:
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 comprising a surgical forceps having two longitudinally elongated, laterally spaced arms and two blades, the arms extending in parallel relation, each blade integral with an arm at the forward end thereof, each blade being blunt at the forward end thereof; whereby the forceps may be displaced to controllably receive a haptic or lens, or both, between the blades and to controllably displace the haptic or lens, or both, for positioning the haptics and lens in the capsule; and a tube receiving the forceps, with the blades positioned to engage and displace the haptic and lens, in the tube.
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Green Randall L.
Haefliger William W.
Haefliger William W.
Jones Mary Beth
McDonald Henry H.
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