Surgery – Instruments – Means for removing – inserting or aiding in the removal or...
Patent
1992-05-18
1993-09-07
Green, Randall L.
Surgery
Instruments
Means for removing, inserting or aiding in the removal or...
606205, 623 6, A61F 900
Patent
active
052424502
ABSTRACT:
A surgical apparatus useful for eye surgery, wherein an incision is made in the eye coroscleral 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 loop structure 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 between the blades and to controllably bend the haptic relative to the lens for positioning the haptic into the capsular "bag" or cavity, or force the haptic to be released in the sulcus, posterior to the iris, or anterior the capsule.
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Green Randall L.
Haefliger William W.
Haefliger William W.
Jones Mary Beth O.
McDonald Henry H.
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