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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2009
Seong-yeon Cho, Goyang-si, KR;
Sang-jae Park, Goyang-si, KR;
Kwang-gi Kim, Goyang-si, KR;
National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Abstract
Provided is a surgical instrument which can provide a field of view over a surgical site by sucking blood from a bleeding site during surgery on body tissue of a patient and monitoring a dark and deep surgical site, which an operator cannot see with his or her naked eye, with a small camera. The surgical instrument has substantially the same shape as a pair of scissors and includes a first body, a second body having a shape symmetrical to that of the first body, a hinge to which the first and second bodies cross and are rotatably coupled, and a photographing unit provided in the hinge to photograph a surgical site between front ends of the first and second bodies. The photographing unit may include a camera mounted in the hinge such that lens of the camera can be exposed through the center of the front surface of the hinge and configured to transmit a photographed image data to a monitor.