Patent ID: 8852088
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. An intracorporeal surgical tissue retractor, comprising: a) a grasper selectively deployable on a tissue to be retracted, said grasper comprising: b) a longitudinally selectively movable support attached at a substantially distal end of said movable support to said grasper; and c) a deployment user interface, couplable to said movable support and having a proximal end manipulable by a user extracorporeally and a distal end releasably attachable to said grasper, adapted to intracorporeally deploy said grasper onto the tissue to be retracted, wherein when said grasper is deployed on the tissue to be retracted and said movable support is selectively moved proximally, the tissue is selectively retracted, and wherein the more said movable support is selectively moved proximally, the more the tissue is retracted, thereby enabling dynamic retraction of the tissue, said grasper further comprising a pair of corresponding holes respectively formed in each of said arms through which said movable support is disposable, wherein when said movable support is selectively moved proximally, additional force is applied to said jaws via said movable support through said holes in said grasper arms further tending to close said jaws into said closed position.