Surgery – Radioactive substance applied to body for therapy – Radioactive substance placed within body
Patent
1996-07-25
2000-04-04
Lacyk, John P.
Surgery
Radioactive substance applied to body for therapy
Radioactive substance placed within body
A61N 500
Patent
active
060454954
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and a method to treat a disease process in a luminal structure. A guidewire is inserted into the patient's luminal structure at least as far as a target area of the luminal structure, a balloon catheter with a blind lumen sealed at its distal end and a guidewire lumen extending therethrough to accept the guidewire is inserted into the luminal structure, the blind lumen being adapted to accept a radiation delivery wire into its proximal end.
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Lacyk John P.
The Trustees fo Columbia University in the City of New York
White John P.
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