Surgery – Means and methods for collecting body fluids or waste material
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-27
2007-02-27
Zalukaeva, Tatyana (Department: 3761)
Surgery
Means and methods for collecting body fluids or waste material
C210S499000, C210S348000, C210S497010, C604S276000, C604S326000, C600S562000, C600S573000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10174854
ABSTRACT:
A containerless tissue sample collection trap featuring, in the preferred embodiment, a flexible filter and an applicator having a shaft terminating in a distal end with a channel therein receiving a portion of the flexible filter, the combination of the applicator and the flexible filter receivable in a suction tube and configured such that when the applicator is removed, the flexible filter forms a removable elongated tissue trap in the suction tube. Also disclosed is a method of trapping tissue wholly within a suction tube thereby eliminating the need for a specimen trap container and a method of making a containerless tissue specimen trap.
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Beale Nathaniel M.
Brigham Lynette E.
Feid Stephen D.
Bogart Michael G.
Iandiorio & Teska
N.M. Beale Company
Zalukaeva Tatyana
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