Retrograde tissue splitter and method

Details Retrograde tissue splitter and method Retrograde tissue splitter and method

1995-04-28

1998-08-25

Bahr, Jennifer

Surgery

Instruments

Electrical application

606 45, 604107, A61B 1739

Patent

active

057979065

ABSTRACT:
A device for retrograde hole opening through tissue has a member elongate on an axis with a cross section shaped to insert axially through external tissue. A distal and a proximal end on the member respectively enter the tissue during placement and remain outside the tissue for control. A tip at the distal end has a deployable tissue divider with one or more tissue parting elements and each has a splitter. The tissue parting elements are located within the cross sectional dimensions of the member in a storage position and are movable relative to the tip for placement in an exposed position relative to the tip when shifted from storage so that the splitter thereof splits tissue during retrograde extraction along the axis and contact with tissue. Linkage between the proximal end and the deployable tissue divider retains each of the tissue parting elements with its splitter exposed. The deployable tissue divider has an electrode for transmitting radio frequency energy received from the proximal end to at least each splitter. A return path completes the circuit to provide an electrosurgical effect during the retrograde extraction. A method of placing the device for retrograde hole opening aligns the axis of the elongate member normal to the outside abdominal wall of the body, places the distal end through the tissue and leaving the proximal end outside of the tissue, deploys the tissue divider having one or more tissue parting elements that are first located in a storage position within the cross section to an exposed position with the splitter of each element positioned to split tissue, moves each element axially while exposed and fixed and splits tissue during extraction from the body cavity.

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Brief Technical Report: "Laparoscopic Needles and Trocars: An Overview of Designs and Complications" by Gary S. Oshinsky, M.D. and Arthur D. Smith, M.D. in Journal of Laparoendoscopic Surgery, vol. 2, No. 2, 1992.

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