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Abstract

A surgical clamping device for hollow anatomical structures such as, essentially, blood vessels, but also for tracheas, intestines, etc. This device comprises two jaws, each jaw being formed of an elongate member having a distal end and a proximal end, and a mandrel that can be slipped over the two proximal ends of the two jaws and which is able to bring the axes of the two jaws closer together thus pinching an anatomical structure. The mandrel comprises a distal, pinching part and a proximal, handling part, these two parts being joint together by a locking part, the jaws being bendable at the level of the locking part when the clamp is activated, the distal, pinching part of the mandrel remaining in place by friction on the jaws when it is unlocked from the proximal, handling part. This surgical clamping device applies more particularly to the clamping of the aorta.

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