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Abstract

A bipolar microsurgical instrument enabling a surgeon user thereof to effect successive operative steps incident to microsurgical procedures while retaining the surgeon's position at a microscopic viewing port defining a field of vision wherein the instrument is being used to effect the procedures. The instrument comprises an elongated body the distal ends of which comprise first and second oppositely extending surgical tools which define alternate poles of the instrument. The first and second microsurgical tools are functionally distinct from one another, but are functionally related as to be sequentially utilizable by the surgeon in the microsurgical procedure in which the instrument is being employed. Accordingly, the surgeon may utilize the bipolar instrument by sequentially utilizing the first and second tools, while maintaining the same instrument continuously in hand, thereby eliminating the need to interchange instruments and/or to remove the eyes of the surgeon from the microscopic viewing port to thereby lose contact with the field of vision.

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