Patent ID: 8702602

Claim:
An exoscope for observing and illuminating an object field on a patient from a site removed from a body of said patient, comprising a shaft; a lens system for observing an object field, wherein said lens system is a rod lens system; an illumination for illuminating said object field, and a bracket for holding said exoscope and for modifying a distance between said lens system and said object field, wherein a head member being positioned at a distal end of said shaft; said head member being widened in comparison to a diameter of said shaft; said illumination reaching into said widened head member, and having at least two radiating illumination units being housed in said widened head member, the at least two radiating illumination units are separate units arranged at a distance one to another, and wherein each of that at least two radiating illumination units is provided with a focusing device having a condenser lens; a radiant characteristic of said at least two radiating illumination units being selectable in that, with all possible distances between said object field and said lens system, said object field being homogenously illuminated by said at least two radiating illumination units, and wherein light beams emitted by said at least two radiating illumination units overlap in that at least said object field can be illuminated homogeneously by areas of overlapping light beams, and power lines for supplying said at least two radiating illumination units being arranged within said shaft.