Nasal septal button

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1998-08-31

1999-10-19

Dvorak, Linda C. M.

Surgery

Instruments

Sutureless closure

606 1, 606232, 606198, A61F 100

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059680750

ABSTRACT:
A medical appliance for plugging a hole in a nasal septum that includes a central member that has an irregular cross section where its major axis is longer than its minor axis and where the appliance is sized such that the length of the central portion major axis is the same or slightly shorter than a major axis of an irregularly shaped nasal septum hole, and with opposing disks secured across the opposite central member opposite ends that each have a like diameter that is greater than the length of the nasal septum hole major axis. The medical appliance is formed as a single unit from a flexible material to human body compatible material where at least one of the disks can be folded upon itself and will return to its original shape when released.

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