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Medical - Medical: Instruments / Historical medical instrument | | French term or phrase: constricteur à chapelet | | In a biographical paragraph about Mathias Mayor, a Swiss surgeon. Context: "Mathias Mayor naît en 1775 et obtient le grade de docteur à Pavie. En 1806 il est nommé chirurgien en chef de l’hôpital cantonal de Lausanne, une charge qu’il conservera jusqu’à sa mort. Il améliore de nombreux procédés opératoires, met au point un **constricteur à chapelet** pour extirper les goitres...". What is this instrument called in English, please? Thanks in advance for any help! |
|  Nicky OverKudoZ activityQuestions: 280 (none open) ( 14 closed without grading) Answers: 49
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| | bead ligature | Explanation:
A loop of ligature material is put around the mass to be removed and tightened by sliding the beads down the string as far as possible.
Technique is described here in the context of uterine polyps:
http://books.google.com/books?id=PVcXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA197&lpg=P...
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Note added at 34 mins (2011-11-01 18:20:11 GMT)
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with a pic
http://books.google.com/books?id=HsIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA214&lpg=P...
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Note added at 37 mins (2011-11-01 18:23:08 GMT)
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ah here we are - goitre
see "knot-tyer resembling a string of beads"
http://books.google.com/books?id=sDeBC_KcYScC&pg=PA227&lpg=P...
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Note added at 41 mins (2011-11-01 18:27:48 GMT)
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Mayor's knot-tyer - bingo
Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0766188175...Claude Bernard, Charles Huette - 2004 - Medical - 752 pages
Mayor's knot- tyer, which resembles a string of beads, is flexible, and adapts itself ... This operation ought only to be performed to arrest a haemorrhage,
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last one
http://books.google.com/books?id=XXGRMi7ycXYC&pg=PA820&lpg=P...
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Note added at 47 mins (2011-11-01 18:33:28 GMT)
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Note also the mention of "tourniquet de Mayor" in the last link - "bead tourniquet" was in fact my first thought when I read the French description of his instrument.
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Note added at 59 mins (2011-11-01 18:45:55 GMT)
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tourniquet of Mayor |
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32 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +1 bead ligature
Explanation:
A loop of ligature material is put around the mass to be removed and tightened by sliding the beads down the string as far as possible.
Technique is described here in the context of uterine polyps:
http://books.google.com/books?id=PVcXAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA197&lpg=P...
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Note added at 34 mins (2011-11-01 18:20:11 GMT)
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with a pic
http://books.google.com/books?id=HsIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA214&lpg=P...
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Note added at 37 mins (2011-11-01 18:23:08 GMT)
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ah here we are - goitre
see "knot-tyer resembling a string of beads"
http://books.google.com/books?id=sDeBC_KcYScC&pg=PA227&lpg=P...
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Note added at 41 mins (2011-11-01 18:27:48 GMT)
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Mayor's knot-tyer - bingo
Illustrated Manual of Operative Surgery and Surgical Anatomy - Google Books Result
books.google.com/books?isbn=0766188175...Claude Bernard, Charles Huette - 2004 - Medical - 752 pages
Mayor's knot- tyer, which resembles a string of beads, is flexible, and adapts itself ... This operation ought only to be performed to arrest a haemorrhage,
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Note added at 45 mins (2011-11-01 18:31:21 GMT)
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last one
http://books.google.com/books?id=XXGRMi7ycXYC&pg=PA820&lpg=P...
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Note added at 47 mins (2011-11-01 18:33:28 GMT)
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Note also the mention of "tourniquet de Mayor" in the last link - "bead tourniquet" was in fact my first thought when I read the French description of his instrument.
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Note added at 59 mins (2011-11-01 18:45:55 GMT)
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tourniquet of Mayor
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| Nov 3, 2011 - Changes made by SJLD: | | Edited KOG entry | Nicky Over's old entry - "constricteur à chapelet " => "bead ligature" |
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