Access device with expandable containment member

Details Access device with expandable containment member Access device with expandable containment member

1997-11-19

1999-10-26

Hindenburg, Max

Surgery

Diagnostic testing

Sampling nonliquid body material

606127, A61B 500

Patent

active

059719389

ABSTRACT:
An access device has a distal, expandable member with a low-profile state facilitating insertion and a high-profile state facilitating operation of the device. An obturator can be used to move the expandable member between its two states. Alternatively, the device can have an outer tube and an inner tube connected to respective ends of a cylindrical expansion member, so that co-axial movement of the tubes changes the state of the member. An actuator slideable on a handle facilitates the co-axial movement of the tubes, and a resulting formation of the expandable member in a funnel configuration.

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