A bullet shaped tip for the circular stapling device.

A stainless steel bullet shaped tip has been designed for attachment to the shaft of the circular stapling device. It is useful when the shaft of this circular stapling device must transverse a viscus wall. This modification of the circular stapler has been used in vertical stapling of the stomach for morbid obesity, in low intestinal anastomoses using the side-to-end technique and in re-establishing intestinal continuity after a Hartmann procedure.