摘要 |
The invention relates to a surgical retractor which can be easily interarticulated and which, as such, can be used in abdominal and/or vaginal surgery. The invention does not require the use of screws or fixing systems that lose resistance through normal use. The invention enables surgery to be performed easily on patients that are 25 % or more above normal weight, which cannot be achieved with the use of standard retractors. In addition, the inventive retractor can be used to perform three different groups of surgery, which normally require three different retractors. Retractors traditionally used in gynaecological surgery through the abdomen have been reported to cause femoral nerve lesions that limit leg strength, which is dangerous in that it impedes or restricts the amount that the recently-operated patient can walk and can produce other, sometimes fatal, complications such as thromboembolism.
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