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Surgical retractors designed to temporarily separate and hold back the edge of soft tissue incisions and/or anatomic parts of the eye, exposing and providing access to other tissues or eye structures. Eye (i.e., ophthalmic) retractors are handheld, manual instruments available in a variety of shapes and styles usually including a blunt working end and an integral handle according to the tissue and/or eye structure to be exposed or retracted. Some eye retractors can retain position once set (i.e., self-retained retractors). Dedicated eye retractors are available for particular eye parts (e.g., eyelid, sclera, orbit, iris).
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