Surgery – Endoscope – With camera or solid state imager
Patent
1994-09-19
1999-11-30
Jaworski, Francis
Surgery
Endoscope
With camera or solid state imager
604 49, 128665, A61B 104
Patent
active
059933780
ABSTRACT:
Improvements in electro-optical instruments operable in body ducts, such as catheters, endoscopes, laparascopes and free travelling capsules adapted to pass through the body ducts. Methods for using same to detect and treat diseases such as cancer cells and body tissue. Medical materials, such as drug compounds usable with such instruments, are provided for detecting, marking and treating diseases such as cancer and preventing the spread of cancer. An instrument is provided which is capable of detecting a malady, such as a tumor, cancer,lesion, ulcer or other type of wound in a body duct of a living being which instrument may also be automatically operated to treat such a malady, such as by performing a surgical operation thereon.
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