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Abstract

A surgical extractor for use in laparascopy. It has a first hollow tube called 'slide' and a second hollow tube called 'pusher', which is mounted in a sliding manner over the slide. The slide has a first open end, a second end and a long radial opening close to the second end. A set of flexible rods called 'straps' extend in line with the pusher. Each strap has a first end fixed in a rigid manner to the pusher and a second end connected in a rigid manner to the slide close to the second end of the same. Handles are provided for applying a pressure onto the pusher so as to move it over a given stroke distance from a rest position to an opening position closer to the second end of the slide, such causing the straps to fold up and open like petals over the radial opening and thus to allow grasping in a radial direction of an organ to be extracted from the body of the patient. The same handles are also used to bring the pusher back from its opening position to its rest position while forcing, if needs be, the straps to unfold and thus crush the organ grasped by them, such permitting to the organ to pass inside the slide and thus to be extracted from the same through the first open end thereof.

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