Short self-retaining trocar sleeves for laparoscopic surgery.
Problems with currently available trocar sleeves are listed. A second-puncture, lower-quadrant sleeve of a special design that eliminates these problems is described: short, self-retaining because of a screw grid on its external surface, and without a trap. Suggestions for modification of the umbilical sleeve trocar are advanced.
Reich
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Nesbitt Memorial Hospital, Kingston, Pennsylvania.
McGlynn
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020706:Laparoscopes