Patent ID: 7762951
Filing Date: 2010-07-27
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A device for harvesting a vessel section from tissue within a patient's body, comprising: a shaft including a lumen extending from a proximal end of the shaft into a distal nose portion of the shaft, the distal nose portion of the shaft shaped for blunt dissection of the tissue through an incision adjacent the vessel section to be harvested, the shaft including a region along a length of the shaft through which the blunt dissection may be viewed; and a housing including an elongated opening to provide a working area adjacent to the vessel section to be harvested, the housing engagable with the shaft by sliding the housing onto the proximal end of the shaft and toward the distal nose portion of the shaft along the vessel section to be harvested to a position in which at least a portion of the working area may be viewed through the shaft.