Caspar cervical retractor system
Self-retaining soft-tissue retractor plus a pin-anchored vertebral body distractor (pins screwed into adjacent vertebral bodies) connected to a distraction frame.
How it is used
Exposure and controlled interbody distraction in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), distinct from the already-catalogued (cranial) self-retaining brain retractor.
Clinical tip
An alternative titanium design was presented at a SENEC (Spanish neurosurgery society) congress precisely because Cloward/Caspar-type retractors can impinge the esophagus, trachea, or carotid, causing postoperative dysphagia.
Sources
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History
Added to the catalog on 2026-10-15.
Dates derived from the project's public version-control history on GitHub, not a live collaborative edit log.