Surgical retractor

Details Surgical retractor Surgical retractor

1988-12-23

1990-05-15

Coven, Edward M.

Surgery

Truss

Perineal

128345, 128 17, A61B 1702

Patent

active

049248570

ABSTRACT:
A retractor for vaginal surgery having a pair of retractor blades centrally supported in a rectangualr frame formed by a pair of support bars to which the retractor blades are fixed, extending therefrom perpendicular to the plane of the frame. Adjustment of blade spacing is accomplished by turnbuckle mechanisms connecting the ends of the support bars and fixed thereto to maintain a substantially rectangular shape as the frame is adjusted.

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Journal de Chirurgie, vol. 42, Issue 3, Sep. 1933, p. 364.

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