Information about Scoop Trocar


Illustration from the Truax catalogue (1899), 208 fig. 382, which notes that trocars originally consisted of triangular pointed instruments used to puncture the wall of a cyst, organ or abscess, for the purpose of evacuating any contained fluid. Generally such trocars were constructed with an outer canula, the latter designed to remain within the wound, thus supplying a channel for fluid escape.... The Scoop Trocar...consists of a suitable shaft, point, and canula, the latter terminating in a scoop or spout of such form that it may be used to conduct the flow of liquid into a basin or such receptacle."


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