Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Thermal applicators
Patent
1995-09-27
1997-12-30
Bockelman, Mark
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Thermal applicators
604 95, 604 22, 606 33, A61F 200
Patent
active
057024332
ABSTRACT:
A kink-resistant steerable catheter assembly suitable for microwave ablation includes a handle, a catheter and a steering control. The catheter has (a) a flexible, torque-transmitting and axially incompressible proximal or body portion terminating in a proximal end attached to the handle, and (b) a flexible and axially compressible distal or tip portion terminating in a distal end. A coaxial cable is disposed in and extends through a large aperture in the catheter proximal portion, and a coaxial cable extension is generally centrally disposed in, substantially fills, and snugly extends through a large lumen in the catheter distal portion to reduce kinking. The control is disposed in and actuatable from the handle, for placing tension on one of a pair of steering wires while relaxing tension on the other of the pair of steering wires, thereby to bend the distal end of the coaxial cable extension toward the tensed one of the steering wires.
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Latzgo Philip F.
Lenihan Timothy J.
Taylor Kevin
Arrow International Investment Corp.
Bockelman Mark
Gring N. Kent
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