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  • Vascular surgical retractors designed to temporarily separate and hold back the aorta, exposing and providing access to other thoracic or abdominal structures and/or organs. These retractors consist of handheld, manual instruments in a variety of shapes and sizes, including a double-ended instrument with perpendicular blunt blades at the working ends (e.g., Cooley aorta retractors); other retractors consist of a double-angulated shaft ended in a convex, frequently serrated blade perpendicular to the shaft at the distal end (e.g., Crawford aorta retractors). They are used mainly in heart procedures performed on the aorta and/or associated thoracic structures.
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