Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – With means for cutting – scarifying – or vibrating tissue
Patent
1997-02-14
2000-07-04
Shay, David M.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
With means for cutting, scarifying, or vibrating tissue
604 27, 606 1, A61B 1736
Patent
active
060831928
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for removing cataracts in which a flexible line preferably is inserted through an incision into the anterior chamber until its end is adjacent the cataract. Ultrasonic energy, preferably up to 100 Mhz, is coupled to the cataract by an optical fiber in the line. An irrigation sleeve provided about the optical fiber and an aspiration sleeve extending partially around the irrigation sleeve conduct irrigating liquid to and remove the fragmented/emulsified material from the anterior chamber and form with the fiber the flexible line.
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