Patent ID: 8097013
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method for incising skin with a skin incision instrument the method comprising steps of: incising, utilizing a driving unit of the skin incision instrument and a needle of the skin incision instrument, to form a incision portion in the skin; reading, utilizing a reader of the skin incision instrument, a direction of the incision portion; selecting m skin expander set(s) from n skin expander sets, based on the direction of the incision portion read by the reader, the m skin expander set(s) configured to form an angle between 45° and 90, wherein the angle is formed by the direction of the incision portion in the reading step and the direction to expand the skin by the m skin expander set(s); and expanding, utilizing the m expander set(s), to expand the skin at both sides of the incision portion away from the incision portion; wherein the selecting step is performed by a calculating unit.