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. 2019 Dec;106(13):1818.
doi: 10.1002/bjs.11188.

The St Mark's retractor

G M de Jong  1 , S K Clark  2
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The St Mark's retractor

G M de Jong et al. Br J Surg. 2019 Dec.
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Figure 1
St Mark's retractors
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Figure 2
Typical handling of a St Mark's retractor
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Figure 3
Screenshot of view into the pelvis from the Technique of the Radical Abdomino‐perineal (Miles's) operation, by Ernest Miles (1933)
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Figure 4
Page from a medical report of St Mark's Hospital (1944) P.A (LTP), perineoabdominal resection in lithotomy–Trendelenburg position. Available at St Bartholomew's Archives, London, UK (SBHK/MR/15/1).
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Figure 5
Illustrations of pelvic procedures in Diseases of the Colon and Rectum (1958–1959) a Figure from Carroll et al. Transabdominal proctocolectomy. Dis Colon Rectum 1958; 1: 432–438. b Figure from Cattell et al. One‐stage abdominoperoneal operation for cancer of the rectum. Dis Colon Rectum 1959; 2: 253–259.
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Figure 6
Screenshot from Abdomino‐perineal (Miles) Operation for Cancer of the Rectum, by Arthur Lawrence Abel (1971)
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Figure 7
St Mark's Hospital Medical Committee minute book and entries Available at St Bartholomew's Archives, London, UK (SBHK/MC/1/1/1‐3, 1930‐1961).
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Figure 8
October 1955 Medical Committee minutes with respect to a consultants' requisition of a Canny Ryall's probe Available at St Bartholomew's Archives, London, UK (SBHK/MC/1/1/1‐3, 1930‐1961).
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Figure 9
Drawing of a ‘St Mark's retractor’ in drawing book from the Thackray works (volume 4, page 138, 1950)
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Figure 10
Detail from a Seward Thackray Ltd catalogue showing two St Mark's retractors and Shucksmith's retractors (1955)
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Figure 11
Detail from a Down Bros. and Mayer & Phelps Ltd catalogue, showing a Lloyd‐Davies' retractor (1955)
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Figure 12
St Mark's retractors in Thackray Medical Museum Upper image: retractor marked with ‘Old pattern’ (undated); lower image: retractor marked with ‘Improved pattern with lipped blade and angled handle’ (dated after 1973).
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Figure 13
Oswald Vaughan Lloyd‐Davies (1905–1987) Available at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02553836.
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