Stapling instrument for joining intestine ends - has head coupling rod in two parts screwing together with hand grip

Abstract

Abstract The instrument joins together the ends of two parts of the intestines separated by surgery, using a ring of rivets. At the forward end of a tubular housing is an annular holder for a ring of rivets, together with a common driving mechanism and a cylindrical knife sliding axially, while at the rear are hand actuators for mechanism and knife. A conical head has at its side towards the housing an annular anvil for the rivets and a support face for the knife, and is fixed to a coupling rod passing through the housing bore and screwed at the rear end to take a nut adjusting the clearance between its rear end and the forward housing end.

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