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US 2012/0239029 A1Published application
Apparatus for endobronchial ablation of a tumor
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorGeorg Nollert
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Abstract
An apparatus for endobronchial ablation of a tumor is provided. The apparatus has an ablation catheter and a guide facility to be inserted into the bronchial system, a sheath defining a guide channel for the ablation catheter, a closing apparatus for a bronchial arm, and an aperture allowing airtight insertion of the ablation catheter into a bronchial arm blocked by the closing apparatus. The ablation catheter and/or the guide facility have a suction apparatus for sucking air out of a bronchial arm blocked off by the closing apparatus.
Claims12
An apparatus for endobronchial ablation of a tumor, comprising:
- an ablation catheter;
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- a guide device to be inserted into a bronchial system,
- wherein the guide device comprises:
- a sheath defining a guide channel for the ablation catheter,
- a closing device for blocking a bronchial arm, and
- an aperture for allowing airtight insertion of the ablation catheter into the bronchial arm blocked by the closing device, and
- wherein the ablation catheter and/or the guide device comprises a suction apparatus for sucking air out of the bronchial arm blocked by the closing apparatus.
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