Surgery – Diagnostic testing – Sampling nonliquid body material
Patent
1998-12-28
1999-09-21
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
Sampling nonliquid body material
606179, A61B 500
Patent
active
059546719
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method for harvesting bone using a manual, cylindrical, multi-directional coring device with a guided delivery system that can be inserted through a percutaneous or closed approach to extract precisely measured amounts of bone or bone marrow. A series of guide wires, obturators, dilators and cannulas are used as the exposure and delivery instrumentation for a cutting tool. The cutting tool has a tip with six cutting edges for cutting in all directions.
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Buiz Michael
McGonagle John P.
Woo Julian W.
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