Surgical rasp
AssigneeNeuro Enterprises, LLC
InventorSEAN A. SALEHI
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Abstract
In one example, the present invention relates to a surgical instrument for removing tissue from a body, which instrument includes an elongated shaft distally attached to a cutting element, wherein the elongated shaft and the cutting element are fixedly connected by an arcuate element such that the longitudinal axes of the elongated shaft and the cutting element intersect at an angle between about 90° and about 170° and the cutting element comprises a convex non-cutting base that contacts tissue when moving distally. The present invention also relates to a method of using said instrument.
Claims20
A surgical instrument for removing tissue from a body, comprising an elongated shaft distally attached to a cutting element, wherein the elongated shaft and the cutting element are fixedly connected by an arcuate element such that the longitudinal axes of the elongated shaft and the cutting element intersect at an angle between about 90° and about 170° and the cutting element comprises a convex non-cutting base that contacts tissue when moving distally.
A method for removing targeted tissue from a body employing a surgical instrument that includes a distal cutting element that has a non-cutting convex side and a cutting concave side, comprising making a first incision in the body, passing the surgical instrument from outside the body to a point proximate to the targeted tissue, placing the surgical instrument's concave side of its distal end in contact with the targeted tissue, moving the surgical instrument back and forth along the longitudinal axis of the distal cutting element while applying pressure on the targeted tissue with the cutting concave side, and removing tissue that is freed from the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.