METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STABILIZING AN ABDOMINAL WALL DURING A LAPAROSCOPIC INCISION

摘要

An apparatus and method for laparoscopic surgery provides a stabilizing tool (100) using having movable latches (306). In one embodiment, the stabilizing tool includes a body portion (102), a moving mechanism (202) and a latching mechanism (302). The moving mechanism enables a user to extend the movable latches outwardly to an extended position and retract the movable latches inwardly to a retracted position. The latches have hook portions (336), and are movable between a first position and a second position, the distance between the hook portions from the elongated axis of the apparatus being greater in the second position than in the first position.