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Event 62583

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Event summary

Timeline bucket
July 02, 2012
Product types
Device
Classifications
Class II
Statuses
Terminated
Recalling firm wording
Transenterix, Inc

Dossier provenance

Source snapshots represented here

  • openFDA Device Enforcement Report-date coverage June 20, 2012–July 08, 2026 Known gap: openFDA describes 2004-present coverage, but the current export has no report-date records in this interval.
  • openFDA Device Recall event_date_initiated coverage June 01, 1997–June 30, 2026

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SPIDER Surgical Instrument: Flexible Clip Applier The SPIDER¿ Surgical Instruments are intended for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures for grasping, mobilizing, dissecting, retracting, cutting, cauterizing, ligating, suction/irrigation and other manipulation of tissues and vessels during a laparoscopic procedure under direct and/or endoscopic visualization.

Z-2137-2012
Recall number
Z-2137-2012
Initiated
July 02, 2012
Classification
Class II
Status
Terminated
Recalling firm
Transenterix, Inc
Quantity
89 boxes(6 units per box)

App-derived interpretation

Unknown reason.no_named_rule · v1.0.0
Some clip applier units may be inadequate to achieve clip closure.

These labels are deterministic app interpretations, not FDA categories.

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Reason for recall

Some clip applier units may be inadequate to achieve clip closure.

Code information

Model Number: 9000029, Lot #DC301112, Exp. Date: Oct 2013; Lot #DC313111, Exp. Date: Nov 2013; Lot #DC061121, Exp. Date: Mar 2013; Lot #DC082122, Exp. Date: Feb 2014; Lot #DC168112, Exp. Date: Jun 2013; Lot #DC265111 Exp. Date: Sept 2013; Lot #DC341111, Exp. Date: Dec 2013; Lot #DC019125, Exp. Date: Jan 2014; Lot #DC061122, Exp. Date: Mar 2014; Lot #DC082121, Exp. Date: Feb 2014; Lot #DC102122, Exp. Date: Apr 2014; Lot #DC102123, Exp. Date: Apr 2014 and Lot #DC144121, Exp. Date: May 2014.

Distribution pattern

Worldwide Distribution - USA (nationwide) and the countries of Austria, Germany, Italy, Qatar and Switzerland

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