 It is also used in hand surgery to cut traumatic amputated bone to allow skin to be closed over the defect.A rongeur can also be used in cadaver dissection lab to break through ribs when removing the anterior chest wall.A common example of a surgical rongeur is the Kerrison rongeur, in which its first design was created by Dr. Robert Masters Kerrison (1776–1847), an English physician, but it took more than 100 years before the Kerrison rongeur was modified and took its current form.