A surgical clamp and method of use of same. The surgical clamp has (a) a shaft with proximal and distal ends; (b) two opposing jaw members with proximal ends, distal ends, cooperating faces, and lateral faces, the jaw members hingedly attached at their proximal ends to the distal end of the shaft, the jaw members adapted to clamp tissue placed between the cooperating faces; (c) a cylinder slidably disposed around the shaft, the cylinder adapted to urge the opposing jaws together when is axially displaced toward the distal end of the shaft and over the lateral faces of the jaw members; and (d) the shaft the jaw members and the cylinder is formed of radiolucent material.