Malleable retractor blade
Also called Malleable Retractor, Malleable, Bookwalter Malleable Blade
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A flat, bendable stainless-steel blade with a row of slots along the shaft that lets it lock into the ratchet of a table-mounted ring retractor such as the Bookwalter. Some have a curled lip at the tip.
Primary uses
What this instrument is on the table to do.
Fixed to a self-retaining ring retractor and bent to hold bowel and other organs out of the way in large open abdominal cases, such as liver surgery or ventral hernia repair.
Sizes & variants
The lengths, angles and patterns it comes in.
Bookwalter malleable blades come about 1 to 4 in (25 to 101 mm) wide and 4 to 10 in (102 to 254 mm) long, plain or with a protective lip; super-malleable versions are also made.
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