Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – With means for cutting – scarifying – or vibrating tissue
Patent
1988-06-13
1989-11-28
Thaler, Michael H.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
With means for cutting, scarifying, or vibrating tissue
128305, A61B 1732
Patent
active
048834580
ABSTRACT:
An atherectomy system for coring, ingesting and removing an obstruction from within a patient's vessel, comprising a flexible guide-wire insertable into the vessel, a flexible rotary catheter being rotatably disposed and insertable into the vessel over the flexible guide-wire, having a rotary coring device at its distal end for making a ciruclar cut in an obstruction located in front of the rotary coring device, relative motion between the inner-wall and the flexible guide-wire mechanically enabling the ingested obstruction material into the catheter.
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Shiber Samuel
Surgical Systems & Instruments, Inc.
Thaler Michael H.
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