Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1984-06-29
1987-02-10
Rosenbaum, C. Fred
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
128DIG6, 128303B, 128329R, 128346, 128 87R, A61M 500
Patent
active
046420967
ABSTRACT:
Position locating device for interstitial radiotherapy of a body portion comprising a flexible sheet member for being received about and conformed with a body portion which is to receive radiotherapy, the sheet member having a plurality of spaced position locating means, and attachment means for releaseably securing the sheet member about the body portion. The position locating means of the sheet member comprises a plurality of spaced openings arranged in rows and columns, and the attachment means comprises a pair of clamping units securing a plurality of bands with the ends of the sheet member. The clamping units are detachably secured with the sheet member for being replaced and repositioned therewith and the first ends of the bands are pivotally secured with the respective clamping units, while the second ends of each of the bands of one of the clamping units is detachably securable with a corresponding one of the second ends of the bands of the other clamping unit. The method comprises positioning a flexible sheet member having a plurality of spaced openings over a body portion which is to receive interstitial radiotherapy, conforming the sheet member with the surface of the body portion and securing its position thereon, marking the locations of selected openings of the sheet member onto the surface of the body portion, and thereafter removing the sheet member from the body portion.
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The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, vol. 37A, No. 6, 12/55.
Rooney Mark
Rosenbaum C. Fred
Trachtman Jacob
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