Pituitary rongeur (disc rongeur)
A pistol-grip instrument with two cup-shaped hinged jaws that shear and pull away small fragments of tissue as they close; available in straight, up-biting and down-biting configurations and several jaw sizes.
How it is used
Used to remove intervertebral disc fragments (nucleus pulposus) during lumbar microdiscectomy and for soft-tissue dissection in transsphenoidal pituitary surgery, the origin of its name.
Sources
This entry is part of the Instriq catalog, researched and written per specialty from real web research -- never generated or invented without verification -- and reviewed skeptically and independently before publication. How this catalog is written.
History
Added to the catalog on 2026-10-02.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.