Patent ID: 8092423

Claim:
A surgical access device, comprising: a cannula including an elongated tube having an inner peripheral surface dimensioned to facilitate passage of instrumentation therethrough and an outer peripheral surface configured to operatively engage and removably secure to tissue; and a seal housing positionable around the outer peripheral surface of the cannula and configured to operatively engage and removably secure to tissue, the seal housing including an instrument seal for insertion of instrumentation therethrough, the cannula and the seal housing separately and mechanically engaging tissue; wherein a proximal end of the cannula includes a flange that mechanically engages and secures the cannula to tissue, and wherein the cannula is secured utilizing an expandable material disposed within a port defined within the outer peripheral surface of the cannula, the expandable material being selectively deployable via a nozzle disposed through the cannula and exposed on an outer surface of the flange.