Tool for laparoscopic surgery

Details Tool for laparoscopic surgery Tool for laparoscopic surgery

1993-01-13

1994-04-19

Lewis, Ralph

Surgery

Instruments

Electrical application

606 29, 606 40, 606 49, A61B 1732

Patent

active

053041763

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a instrument for laparoscopic surgery which permits the operating surgeon to irrigate or suction the operative area while performing electrocautery or laser hemostasis and dissection of body tissue with the same instrument.
The invention also relates to a laparoscopic tool for evacuating free stones or blood clots from the operating area which are to large to be suctioned from the body cavity or to remove gallstones from a gallbladder which has been distended by stones and cannot be retrieved through an umbillical sheath.

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