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US 2017/0000470 A1Published application
Lighted Polyhedral Retractor
AssigneeAtlantic Health System, Inc., a NJ non-profit corporation
InventorEric D. Whitman
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Abstract
The present invention provides a surgical retractor that provides improved access to a surgical space, devised in the shape of a partial polyhedron, and also provides improved visualization of the surgical space with light emitting elements placed within the polyhedron structure.
Claims10
A surgical retractor comprising:
- i. a structure formed with legs that upon deployment, expand into a partial polyhedral shape;
- ii. said structure being compact in its non-deployed state and upon deployment, unfolds said legs to expand allowing for said deployment to simultaneously and in a plurality of directions retract a specific body tissue area;
- iii. said deployment initiated and controlled by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.