Surgery – Endoscope – With tool carried on endoscope or auxillary channel therefore
Patent
1996-04-08
1998-05-05
Flanagan, Beverly M.
Surgery
Endoscope
With tool carried on endoscope or auxillary channel therefore
600114, 604280, A61B 100
Patent
active
057466920
ABSTRACT:
A method of viewing an interior passage of a patient using an endoscope and a catheter which includes a catheter body having a distal end and a lumen opening at the distal end and a displacing member. The method comprises advancing the catheter into the passage in the patient with the displacing member extending beyond the distal end of the catheter body when the catheter body is at a region of the passage. The endoscope is provided in the lumen of the catheter with the endoscope being movable longitudinally relative to the catheter and being at a location for viewing the interior passage. The method includes relatively displacing the distal end of the catheter body and material within or forming the passage within a zone of the interior passage utilizing the displacing member and viewing at least a portion of such zone of the interior passage utilizing the endoscope.
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Bacich Steven R.
Greelis John Patrick
Nguyen Tuoc Tan
Flanagan Beverly M.
Imagen Medical, Inc.
Stout Donald E.
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