Handpiece for use in lithotripsy

Details Handpiece for use in lithotripsy Handpiece for use in lithotripsy

1997-04-30

1999-02-09

Thaler, Michael H.

Surgery

Instruments

Means for concretion removal

A61B 1722

Patent

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058687564

ABSTRACT:
A handpiece for use in lithotripsy is provided with a probe which as a wave guide transmits shock waves that are produced by an impact force of a projectile acting against a mass body member located at the proximal end of the probe whereby this mass body member is located at the free end of a guide tube for said projectile and adapted for transmitting the impact force from the projectile to said probe the shock waves of which are adapted to cause an intercorporeal fragmentation of calculi.

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patent: 5449363 (1995-09-01), Brust et al.
patent: 5540702 (1996-07-01), Walz

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