forceps

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an extractor consisting of a pair of pincers used in medical treatment (especially for the delivery of babies)

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Tools such as alligator forceps and IUD hooks can aid device removal when the strings are not palpable

Overcoming LARC complications: 7 case challenges

Several attempts were made to remove the foreign body with different types of forceps like alligator forceps, basket forceps, biopsy forceps; but the foreign body could not be retrieved as there was a web like projection nearby.

Flexible fibreoptic bronchoscopy in the removal of long standing foreign body: 2 case reports

Seeing a dumbbell-shaped ear mold fragment straddling the facial ridge and closely abutting the underlying mastoid bowel (figure, B), the physicians carefully turned it over, en bloc, in an anterior-to-posterior direction using a micro alligator forceps.

Ear mold impression material as an aural foreign body

Multiple attempts to grasp the needle using long alligator forceps (1050 cm; Olympus) were unsuccessful because of the smooth surface of the needle.

Use of a colonoscopic polyp snare to retrieve an endotracheal foreign body

This can easily be avoided with a small myringotomy and removal of the tube with an alligator forceps.

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