A - Human Necessities – 61 – B
Patent
A - Human Necessities
61
B
A61B 17/00 (2006.01) A61B 17/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2105689
A tissue manipulator is provided which is insertable through an endoscopic tube to enable a surgeon to manipulate tissue inside a body cavity. The endoscopic tissue manipulator includes an expandable tissue manipulating frame adapted to expand transversely through a longitudinal slot in a support tube to provide a spatula-shaped platform which can be manipulated by rotation of the support tube about its longitudinal axis to engage and displace large body organs away from a desired surgical site in a body cavity. The frame consists of a plurality of flexible frame members or wires adapted to flex laterally outward through the longitudinal slot in the support tube into a bow- shaped configuration overlapping the other frame members or wires of the spatula-shaped platform. The instrument can be provided with a single tissue manipulating frame or a pair of frames which are expandable through separate longitudinal slots in the support tube to provide a pair of spatula- shaped platforms to engage the tissue.
Adams Ronald D.
Allman Robert C.
Alvarez de Toledo Fernando
Embertson Randy J.
Tolkoff M. Joshua
Ethicon Inc.
Norton Rose Or S.e.n.c.r.l. S.r.l./llp
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