Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1990-07-19
1992-08-04
Rosenbaum, C. Fred
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604105, 606198, A61M 2500
Patent
active
051355175
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus is provided for positioning a core member within a passageway formed in a body. The apparatus includes at least one positioning element and a control mechanism for moving the positioning element relative to a core member. The positioning element includes a pair of end portions appended to the core member and a flexible central portion intermediate the end portions for movement relative to the core member. The positioning element is configured so that the flexible central portion moves in response to a stimulus from the control mechanism to assume a predetermined position engaging an interior wall of the body passageway and thus biasing the core member into a selected orientation within the passageway.
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Catheter Research, Inc.
Maglione C.
Rosenbaum C. Fred
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