Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1992-07-06
1994-08-30
Rosenbaum, C. Fred
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
128 4, A61M 3700
Patent
active
053422996
ABSTRACT:
A catheter for use in body vessels or cavities has a housing of such size as to be readily held in the hand of a user and elongate tube means having one end connected to the housing and extending outwardly therefrom and being formed of material of such a stiffness so as to maintain the elongate tube means in straight condition in the absence of an external force applied thereto, an outer end portion of the elongate tube means being flexible. Guide wires are connected to the housing by the inner ends thereof and extend outwardly therefrom through the elongate tube means. The outer ends of the guide wires are connected to the flexible outer end portion of the elongate tube means. Guide wire control means is carried by the housing and cooperates with the inner end portions of the guide wires for controlling the angular attitude of the flexible outer end portion of the elongate tube means.
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Charles Kirk W.
Lincoln David G.
Rowley David S.
Snoke Phillip J.
Catheter Imaging Systems
Maglione Corrini
Rosenbaum C. Fred
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