What am I looking at?
Visual recognition
Collapsible multi-wire basket that opens into a cage to surround the object.
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Endovascular retrieval basket
Retrieval basket
Three-panel learning framework
Recognition, context, and distinction
What does it do, and where will I see it?
Use & procedural context
Wire basket opened around a stone or foreign body to entrap and withdraw it; some baskets can also fragment or reposition the object. Typical procedural contexts include biliary and urinary stone retrieval and vascular or ductal foreign-body capture.
What most clearly distinguishes it from similar devices?
Key distinctions
The retrieval basket surrounds a target within an expandable wire cage, contrasting with a loop snare that captures by cinching and forceps that retrieve by direct grasping.