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Vascular surgical scissors designed for fine and sharp dissection of blood vessels in microsurgical procedures. These scissors are typically very small handheld, manual instruments with two straight or curved metallic (e.g., stainless steel) and frequently beveled blades with tips specially shaped to avoid vessel slipping and appropriate for roughening artery ends that slide past each other (i.e., shearing action). The blades are usually attached to serrated flat handles to to provide a safer grip; the handles also have inserted flat springs to avoid uneven tension and to provide a more uniform and/or sensitive manipulation. Vascular microsurgery scissors are mainly used in neurosurgery and plastic surgery.
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