A.m.i. Agency for Medical Innovations Gmbh

Hafslund Nycomed Pharma Aktiengesellschaft

Mathias Scheyer

An instrument for use in the treatment of prolapsed hemorrhoids by applying a purse-string suture includes a tube, which has a distal end, with which it can be inserted forward into the rectum of a patient. The tube also has an open proximal end and a shell wall encompassing an inner hollow space and is provided with an elongated opening. The opening extends in the axial direction of the tube from a distal end to a proximal end. The instrument also includes a closure device, which in a closing position closes the opening and by which the opening can be successively exposed from the distal to the proximal end.

Instrument for use in the treatment of prolapsed hemorrhoids

A device for endoscopic or laparoscopic application of surgical material has a hand grip 1 and a shaft 2 surrounded by a movable tube 3, at a end of which shaft 2 there is a closure for an appliance for securing the wound-healing or wound-sealing material or a surgical instrument. The closure has two branches 6 which are of different lengths and are connected in a U-shape, a notch 7 being provided on the longer branch. An a raised portion 8 is provided on the appliance for securing the wound-healing or wound-sealing material or on the surgical material, which raised portion 8 can be inserted with an exact fit into the notch in the longer branch.

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Feldkirch, Austria

Mathias Scheyer