Apparatus for promoting flow of a body fluid within a human limb

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1987-06-22

1988-09-27

Coughenour, Clyde I.

Surgery

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128 40, A61H 100

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047733977

ABSTRACT:
An improved apparatus for promoting flow of a body fluid within a human limb, which has been subjected to an amputation procedure, wherein a novel distal inflatable cell having a pair of inflatable cell portions, one of which encompasses such a limb adjacent the stump end thereof and the other of which extends transversely across the stump end thereof, is utilized in a novel therapy to treat Lymphedema and similar fluid accumulation disorders of the extremities.

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