Surgery – Endoscope – With guide means for body insertion
Patent
1996-07-03
1998-06-02
Flanagan, Beverly M.
Surgery
Endoscope
With guide means for body insertion
606190, 606191, 606192, 606159, 606167, A61B 104
Patent
active
057591504
ABSTRACT:
A system for evulsing subcutaneous tissue includes an endoscope adapted to be inserted into subcutaneous tissue through a skin cut portion to observe tissue to be evulsed and existing under the skin, a dissecting unit adapted to be inserted into the subcutaneous tissue through the skin cut portion so as to dissect the tissue, to be evulsed, from surrounding tissue in order to form a cavity along the tissue to be evulsed and below the skin, a cavity maintaining unit adapted to be inserted from the skin cut portion into the cavity formed by the dissecting unit and to be retained in the cavity in order to maintain, around the tissue to be evulsed, a treatment space which permits the endoscope to be inserted and removed and which enables treatment of the tissue to be evulsed, and at least one treatment tool adapted to be inserted into the treatment space maintained by the cavity maintaining unit in order to perform, in the treatment space, treatment required to evulse the tissue to be evulsed.
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Kira Jin
Kogasaka Takahiro
Konou Ryoichi
Masubuchi Ryoji
Okabe Hiroshi
Flanagan Beverly M.
Olympus Optical Co,. Ltd.
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