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Surgical knives designed for cutting and/or dissecting blood vessels during microsurgical procedures. These knives usually consist of manual, needle-like handheld instruments, usually with a straight tubular handle and a straight or curved shaft ended in a pointed cutting blade that is curved upward or downward at its distal tip. Microsurgery blood vessel knives are mainly used in neurosurgical procedures, especially to treat aneurisms.
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