Morcellation Containment Bag
Contained Tissue Extraction Bag · Morcellation Bag · Tissue Containment System · PneumoLiner
A large, clear, strong plastic bag with an opening ring and ports. It is inserted rolled up through a port, opened in the abdomen, and inflated with carbon dioxideKAR-bun dy-OK-sideA gas made by the body's cells as waste, carried in the blood to the lungs and breathed out.Full entry so the morcellator works inside it.
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What it’s for
Holds the uterus or a large fibroid during laparoscopiclap-uh-roh-SKOP-ikDone through a few small cuts in the abdomen with a thin camera and long instruments, instead of one large opening.lapar/o abdomen-scopic viewingFull entry power morcellation so tissue fragments stay inside the bag instead of spreading in the abdomen. The specimen is placed in the bag, the bag's neck is brought out at the abdominal wall, the bag is insufflationin-suh-FLAY-shunBlowing a gas into a body cavity, such as carbon dioxide into the abdomen during laparoscopic surgery.Full entry to keep distance from the bowel and other organs, and the tissue is cored into strips that come out through the morcellator.
Lengths and variants
Purpose-made morcellation bags (such as the Olympus PneumoLiner) differ from ordinary specimen retrieval bags; our supracervical hysterectomyhis-tuh-REK-tuh-meeSurgery to remove the uterus.hyster/o uterus-ectomy surgical removalFull entry setup asks for one made for morcellation when the morcellator is used.
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- Rothrock. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery. 17th ed. Chapter 14 (Gynecologic and Obstetric Surgery), p. 432
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