SURGICAL INSTRUMENT
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Abstract
Surgical instruments are provided for performing laparoscopic or similar minimally invasive operations, including two clamping parts, which can move towards one another and which have clamping surfaces for gripping tissue when they are closed. A cutting device has a cutting edge that, in a cutting direction, can be displaced relative to the clamping parts for cutting the gripped tissue. In such an instrument the cutting direction extends at an acute angle to the clamping surfaces when they are closed.
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7. Surgical instrument, comprising
at least two clamping parts, which can move towards each other and which have clamping surfaces for gripping tissue when the clamping parts are closed, and a cutting device with a cutting edge, which can move in a cutting direction relative to the clamping parts to cut the gripped tissue, the cutting device extending at an acute angle relative to the clamping surfaces when they are closed.
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