RT Journal
A1 Harbin RM
T1 A cofferdam intestinal retractor
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD May 31
VO 72
IS 22
SP 1614
OP 1614
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.26110220003011d
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.26110220003011d
AB This inexpensive retractor is made in the form of a truncated cone by sewing a section of stocking around pliable copper rings. A dozen or more of different sizes will be found useful in the isolation of infected areas, in reaching inaccessible sources of hemorrhage and facilitating suturing without heavy packing and in searching for lesions causing intestinal obstruction.