title: A mechanical device for improved exposure in kidney surgery.
abstract: A mechanical device for optimal costal margin retraction, applicable to renal surgery, and the physiologic basis for its atraumatic use are presented. Use of the instrument relieves the surgical assistant of the exhausting work of retraction for exposure of the thoracoabdominal space and obviates lower rib resection in most cases.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000601:surgery*; D013523:Surgical Equipment