MEDICAL GRASPER AND METHOD OF MAKING

摘要

A medical grasper and methods of forming the medical grasper by providing a series of flexible tubes, comprising providing a series of flexible tubes (18), a corresponding series of wires (20), each of which includes a movable wire section (22) and relatively short fixed wire section (24) integrally connected with one end of the movable wire section by a kink configured so that the wire sections extend in longitudinally coextensive relation therefrom; a series of tubular elements of thermoplastic material (28); and a series of heat shrinkable sleeves (30) assembling a distal end portion of each flexible tube with a fixed wire section, a tubular element and a heat shrinkable sleeve so that the fixed wire section extends along the exterior periphery of the flexible tube with the kink disposed outwardly of the distal end thereof.