Surgery – Instruments – Obstetric or gynecological instruments
Patent
1999-02-10
2000-08-29
Jackson, Gary
Surgery
Instruments
Obstetric or gynecological instruments
600 1, 606148, 606139, A61B 1704
Patent
active
061101818
ABSTRACT:
A device and method for helping surgeons pass the sutures through the vagina into the abdominal cavity during an operation of laparoscopic assisted vaginal hysterectomy (LAVH). The device utilizes two long plates having a pair of small holes on both ends. The plates are used to pass the thread into the abdominal cavity through the opening of the colpotomy at fornices of the vagina.
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Dykas Frank J.
Jackson Gary
Shaver Robert L.
Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, VACRS
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