Surgery – Instruments – Means for removing – inserting or aiding in the removal or...
Reexamination Certificate
2003-12-31
2011-10-18
Bui, Vy Q (Department: 3773)
Surgery
Instruments
Means for removing, inserting or aiding in the removal or...
C600S236000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08038684
ABSTRACT:
A rod-shaped device holds the equatorial region of the lens capsule during cataract/intraocular lens implantation surgery of patients with a weak or ruptured Zinn zonule. The device has a handle with a length of 6 mm or more and a thickness ranging from 0.01 mm to 1.0 mm, a tip bent into an acute angle, with the length up to this angled tip being 1.5 mm or more from the trough of the bend, and the bent tip having a linear branched or flat pad, with the width between the branches being 1 mm or more or the flat pad having a surface area of 1 mm2or more.
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Bui Vy Q
Showa University
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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