| 摘要 |
Provided are devices and a method for removing skin while causing minimal damage to underlying vascular tissue. An epithelium cutter for removing skin has a handle with a V-shaped blade disposed at one end of the handle. Inner surfaces of the V-shaped blade are sharp, and face away from the handle. In operation, the skin is pulled upwards with tweezers so that it forms a mound, and the V-shaped blade is disposed around the skin mound. Skin removal is initiated by pushing the sharp inner surfaces of the V-shaped blade into the skin mound. The epithelium cutter can remove an arbitrarily long strip of skin. Optionally, to make skin removal easier, the skin can be pre-cut with a rake cutter having 2, 3 or more parallel blades. In this case, a distance between the parallel blades is selected to match a cutting width of the V-shaped blade.
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