abstract |
Apparatus to remove tissue. The apparatus has an outer cannula and an inner cannula received within the outer cannula. The cannula are longitudinally movable relative to each other. There is an abutment at the end of one cannula to contact the other cannula. A drive permits advancing of the other cannula to contact the abutment whereby tissue between the other cannula and the abutment is removed. The invention finds particular application in removable of lens tissue from the eye of a human or other animal. |