Atherectomy system

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1993-08-17

1995-08-22

Pellegrino, Stephen C.

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

With means for cutting, scarifying, or vibrating tissue

606170, A61B 1722

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054434432

ABSTRACT:
A system for removing an obstruction, in sections, from within a vessel, having a flexible guide wire assembly which is insertable into the vessel and a flexible rotary catheter which is slidable over it, the flexible rotary catheter is equipped with a tubular blade at its distal end for cutting and separating the obstruction material from an inner wall of the vessel to be ingested by the system.

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