Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Medical probe with stylets
- Patent Title (中): 医疗探头与风格
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Application No.: US470621Application Date: 1995-06-06
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Publication No.: US5591125APublication Date: 1997-01-07
- Inventor: Stuart D. Edwards , Hugh R. Sharkey , Ingemar H. Lundquist , Ronald G. Lax , James A. Baker, Jr.
- Applicant: Stuart D. Edwards , Hugh R. Sharkey , Ingemar H. Lundquist , Ronald G. Lax , James A. Baker, Jr.
- Applicant Address: CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Vidamed, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Vidamed, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Menlo Park
- Main IPC: A61B18/12
- IPC: A61B18/12 ; A61B1/00 ; A61B5/01 ; A61B10/00 ; A61B10/02 ; A61B10/06 ; A61B17/00 ; A61B17/22 ; A61B17/24 ; A61B17/28 ; A61B17/34 ; A61B18/00 ; A61B18/08 ; A61B18/14 ; A61B18/18 ; A61B18/22 ; A61B18/24 ; A61B19/00 ; A61F7/00 ; A61K31/465 ; A61M1/00 ; A61M3/02 ; A61M25/00 ; A61M25/14 ; A61N1/06 ; A61N1/40 ; A61N5/02 ; A61N5/04 ; A61N5/06 ; A61B17/39
Abstract:
A medical probe device of this invention comprising a catheter having a control end and a probe end. The probe end includes a stylet guide housing having at least one stylet port and stylet guide means for directing a flexible stylet outward through at least one stylet port and through intervening tissue to targeted tissues. A stylet is positioned in at least one of said stylet guide means, the stylet comprising a non-conductive sleeve having a RF electrode lumen and an optional a fluid supply lumen and a temperature sensor lumen therein. At least one portion of an opposed surface of the electrode lumen and the electrode can be spaced apart to define a liquid supply passageway for delivery of medicament liquid. The RF electrode enclosed within the non-conductive sleeve has a distal length optionally having at least one current focusing groove means thereon and a distal tip shaped to focus current crowding on its terminal end, whereby Rf current passing therefrom into surrounding tissue forms a lesion extending outward from the groove and tip. The focusing groove means can be a plurality of annular focusing grooves or a spiral focusing groove thereon.
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