Potts-Smith Cartilage Scissors

Potts-Smith Cartilage — Paediatric-Tracheal Pattern

Beyond their vascular use, the Potts-Smith pattern includes a cartilage variant for tracheal-and-bronchial cartilage division during paediatric-airway reconstruction. The reference Potts-Smith cartilage handles slide-tracheoplasty cartilage incision in long-segment tracheal stenosis, single-stage laryngotracheal-reconstruction Y-flap creation, and bronchial-anastomosis cartilage trim during sleeve-lobectomy. Cartilage variant of the Chicago paediatric-cardiac pattern.

Tracheal-cartilage use

• Slide tracheoplasty
• Single-stage LTR Y-flap
• Bronchial sleeve trim

Potts-Smith cartilage, AISI 420 stainless. Hand-finished in Sialkot.