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US 11,452,565 B2Granted
Device for treating skin ulcers
AssigneeEl.En. S.P.A.
InventorLeonardo Masotti
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Abstract
The device comprises: a laser source (7); a treatment hand-piece (13); a light guide (11) configured to convey a laser beam from the laser source to the hand-piece. The hand-piece (13) is configured to vary the inclination of the laser beam (F2) exiting from the hand-piece with respect to a longitudinal axis (A-A) of the hand-piece.
Claims23
A method of skin ulcer treatment, comprising the steps of:
- escharotomy and debridement of an ulcer by removing soft tissues and expose bone tissue in an area of the ulcer;
- forming a plurality of holes in the bone tissue in an area of the ulcer via a laser beam, the holes being deep enough to cause blood to flow from inside of the bone tissue.
A method of skin ulcer treatment, comprising the steps of:
- escharotomy and debridement of an ulcer by removing soft tissues and expose bone tissue in an area of the ulcer;
- forming a plurality of holes in the bone tissue in the area of the ulcer via a laser beam, the holes being deep enough to cause blood to flow from inside of the bone tissue and causing bleeding of blood through the holes from an interior of the bone tissue in the area of the ulcer.
A method of skin ulcer treatment, comprising the steps of:
- removing soft tissues and exposing bone tissue in an area of an ulcer;
- forming a plurality of holes in the bone tissue via a laser beam such that blood flows from an interior of the bone tissue through the holes in the area of the ulcer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.