Biliary drainage device for negative pressure-retrograde installation of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage
OwnerMin Young Jeonginventor
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Abstract
A biliary drainage device for negative pressure-retrograde installation of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (NR-PTBD) according to the present disclosure is in a pancreaticoduodenectomy process, the biliary drainage device including a flexible tube having a suction port formed at one side end and mounted on an afferent loop in order to suck bile; and a guide member installed at the other end of the tube so that the tube inserted through a cut part of a biliary tract can penetrate a liver tissue.
Claims10
A biliary drainage device for negative pressure-retrograde installation of percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (NR-PTBD) being performed in a pancreaticoduodenectomy process, the biliary drainage device comprising:
- a flexible tube having a suction port formed at one side end and configured to be mounted on an afferent loop in order to suck bile;
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- a guide member installed at a second end of the tube so that the tube inserted through a cut part of a biliary tract is configured to penetrate a liver tissue;
- wherein the guide member has a portion sized and shaped to be exposed outside of the liver tissue and inside a space between the liver tissue and the diaphragm and has multiple guiding grooves forms along its length that are configured for being cut for a removal of the portion of the guide member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.