Surgical instrument

Details Surgical instrument Surgical instrument

1998-04-14

1999-10-19

Smith, Jeffrey A.

Surgery

Specula

Retractor

600245, A61B 1700

Patent

active

059679719

ABSTRACT:
Surgical instrument, particularly a surgical retractor, for use in harvesting saphenous veins for use in coronary bypass operations. The retractor includes a handle, a retractor blade member including first and second limbs which define a view area axis, and a light source coupled to the retractor blade member for directing light away from the handle and away from the view area. The retractor may be inserted into a surgical wound to illuminate the surgical field. In use, the surgical retractor may be manipulated by a physician and can be used to expose sections of the vein and to facilitate blunt dissection along the length of the vein.

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patent: 4337763 (1982-07-01), Petrassevich
patent: 4344419 (1982-08-01), Burgin

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