Doyen rib raspatory (periosteal elevator)
An instrument with a bulb-shaped handle and a curved, slightly spiraled hook-like tip, used to strip the periosteum and soft tissue from the surface of a rib.
How it is used
Used in thoracotomies and rib resections to subperiosteally free the rib before it is divided with rib shears.
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 2026-10-05.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.