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Laparoscopic sealed access device

  • US 20010047188A1
  • Filed: 03/13/2001
  • Published: 11/29/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1998
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A surgical access device for use in laproscopic surgery through an opening comprising:

  • a sleeve of pliable material, the sleeve having an outer sleeve section and an inner sleeve section;

    a chamber for pressurised fluid defined between the inner and outer sleeve sections;

    the inner sleeve section defining a lumen for receiving an object such as a surgeons arm or an instrument therein;

    the sleeve being evertable on engagement of an object in the lumen and axial movement relative thereto so that the inner sleeve section is rolled over outwardly to become an outer sleeve section and the outer sleeve section is correspondingly rolled over inwardly to become an inner sleeve section; and

    at least one eversion limiting means to limit the eversion of the sleeve into an opening.

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