General Surgical Innovations/Dexterity Surgical, Inc.

GSI's Spacemaker balloon dissector products will be offered by Dexterity Surgical's 100-rep sales force under a distribution contract announced May 26. GSI hopes to capture share in the hernia and stress urinary incontinence repair markets, capitalizing on its successful court injunction of sales of Guidant's PDB1000, PDB2, ExtraView and VasoView devices, manufactured by its Origin Medsystems subsidiary ("The Gray Sheet" April 19, p. 22). Dexterity previously distributed the Origin products