Patent ID: 7967746

Claim:
A rectoscope, having a hollow tube and a handle protruding therefrom, wherein a number of light-emitting elements are arranged in a circumferentially distributed fashion at a distal end of said tube, said tube having an outer pipe and an inner pipe, each of said pipes having a distal end, wherein energy guides of said light-emitting elements are guided between said pipes to said distal ends thereof, an annular body is arranged at said distal ends of said inner and said outer pipe, said annular body having an end ring provided with bores for receiving at least a distal end section of said light-emitting elements, said end ring being the very end of the rectoscope at the distal end, and wherein said bores are designed as circumferentially closed axial throughbores in said end ring, and said annular body having an annular flange extending away proximally, said annular flange having an outside diameter corresponding to a clear inside diameter of said outer pipe, and said end ring having an outside diameter corresponding approximately to an outside diameter of said outer pipe.