Surgery – Instruments – Sutureless closure
Patent
1992-01-07
2000-05-02
Thaler, Michael H.
Surgery
Instruments
Sutureless closure
A61B 1900
Patent
active
060567686
ABSTRACT:
A method of and apparatus for sealing access openings into blood vessels using an expandable member in the blood vessel on a control member that extends out through the access opening and an applicator which inserts a preformed sealing material into the access opening over the control member to keep the control member and expandable member centered in the access opening and withdrawing the collapsed expandable member back through the sealing material after the access opening is sealed.
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Cates Christopher U.
Knopf William D.
Whitney Douglass G.
Powell B. J.
Thaler Michael H.
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