Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material applied to or removed from external...
Patent
1998-01-14
1999-12-07
Stright, Ronald
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material applied to or removed from external...
604298, A61M 3500
Patent
active
059975180
ABSTRACT:
Device and method for delivering small microliter volumes of liquid preparations to the eye or other body part utilizing a gas stream to induce a controlled, preselected volume of liquid into the gas stream and to deliver the liquid in the form of small droplets to the desired site.
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Laibovitz Robert A.
Rogers Robert L.
Cho David J.
Stright Ronald
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