Surgical retractor

US5728046A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Aesculap AG · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Michael Mayer · Gräfelfing, DE
• Stephan Eckhof · Tuttlingen, DE
• Nicola Giordano · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Dieter Weisshaupt

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 18, 1996
• Grant date: Mar 17, 1998
• Expiry date: Mar 18, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A61B2017/0256
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a surgical retractor having a frame on which at least two retractor elements are mounted, if desired, so as to be displaceable, to enable individual adjustment of the forces exerted by the retractor elements on the surrounding tissue, it is proposed that the frame have at least one support foot which carries attachment means for fixing on a bone.