Flexible cutting tool and methods for its use

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1996-03-01

1997-12-09

Buiz, Michael

Surgery

Instruments

Cutting, puncturing or piercing

606167, A61B 1732

Patent

active

056955138

ABSTRACT:
A cable comprising helically wound superelastic fibers and having a drilling tip provided at its distal end is housed in an elongated holder through which the cable may be advanced, the holder having a distal end for supporting the cable during a drilling operation and through which the distal end of the cable may protrude. The holder includes contains a cable support shaped to bend the cable through a predetermined angle adjacent its distal end and to support the cable as it is rotated and advanced. A motor is attached to the cable remote from the distal end of the cable to rotate the cable in a direction tending to tighten the cable fibers.

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patent: 5322505 (1994-06-01), Krause et al.
patent: 5376100 (1994-12-01), Lefebvre

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