Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – With means for cutting – scarifying – or vibrating tissue
Patent
1996-07-18
1998-12-01
Mendez, Manuel
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
With means for cutting, scarifying, or vibrating tissue
604114, 606 41, A61B 100
Patent
active
058430199
ABSTRACT:
An electrosurgical system and method allow the surgical team to perform electrosurgical interventions, such as ablation and cutting of body structures, while limiting the depth of necrosis and limiting damage to tissue adjacent the treatment site. The system includes an electrosurgical probe having a shaft with a proximal end, a distal end, and at least one active electrode at or near the distal end. The active electrode includes at least one active portion having a surface geometry configured to promote substantially high electric field intensities and associated current densities between the active portion and the target site when a high frequency voltage is applied to the electrodes. These high electric field intensities and current densities are sufficient to break down the tissue by processes including molecular dissociation or disintegration. The high frequency voltage imparts energy to the target site to ablate a thin layer of tissue without causing substantial tissue necrosis beyond the boundary of the thin layer of tissue ablated. This ablative process can be precisely controlled to effect the volumetric removal of tissue as thin as a few layers of cells with minimal heating of or damage to surrounding or underlying tissue structures.
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Eggers Philip E.
Thapliyal Hira V.
ArthroCare Corporation
Mendez Manuel
Raffle John T.
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