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Raney Clip Appliers
Category: Accessory
Used to apply Raney clips to scalp flap edges during a craniotomy. |
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Leksell Rongeur
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Removes pieces of bone and the soft tissue surrounding the bone. Used in spinal surgery to remove the spinous process. |
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Kerrison Rongeur
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Removes pieces of bone and lamina during spinal procedures |
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Cushing Pituitary Rongeur
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Removes herniated disk fragments when performing a diskectomy. |
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#1 Penfield Dissector
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Used for retraction, manipulation and dissection of nerves, vessels, bone, and tissues during craniotomies, carotid endarterectomies and spinal procedures. |
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#2 Penfield Dissector
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Used for retraction, manipulation, and dissection of nerves, vessels, bone and tissues during craniotomies, carotid endarterectomies and spinal procedures. |
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#4 Penfield Dissector
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Used for retracting, manipulating and dissecting nerves, vessels, bone and tissues during craniotomies, carotid endarterectomies and spinal procedures. Commonly used to remove arterial plague from the walls of the carotid artery. |
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Cobb Elevator
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Used for stripping the paraspinous muscles and the periosteum off the laminae. This is done when performing a laminectomy during spinal surgery. |
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Cobb Curettes
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Used to scrape bone during spinal surgery. |
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Adson Periosteal Elevator
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Used for elevating the skull off of the dura when turning a flap or for scraping the periosteum off of bone. |
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Hoen Periosteal Elevator
Category: Cutting and Dissecting
Used for reflecting the scalp flap off of the skull and/or scraping the periosteum off the skull when creating a bone flap during a craniotomy. |
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Cushing Bayonet Tissue Forceps
Category: Grasping and Holding
Used for grasping delicate tissues |
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Dura Hook
Category: Retracting and Exposing
Used for elevating the dura |
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Beckman Retractor
Category: Retracting and Exposing
Used to retract the wound edges during spinal surgery. Self retaining |
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Meyerding Laminectomy Retractor
Category: Retracting and Exposing
Used for deep retraction during spinal surgery. |
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