Water enucleation of the prostate
AssigneePROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation
InventorsNikolai ALJURI, Surag MANTRI
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved methods and apparatus of treating the prostate. In many embodiments, at least a portion of the prostate is enucleated with a water jet, in order to decrease the invasiveness of the surgery. The access to the prostate can be provided with one or more of open surgical access, percutaneous access, or urethral access. The prostate can be enucleated such that an inner portion of the prostate comprising adenomatous tissue of the prostate is separated from a portion an outer the prostate comprising the capsule. In many embodiments, the patient is treated with energy of the water jet configured to separate the capsule from the inner tissue of the prostate and to inhibit cutting of blood vessels.
Claims10
A method of enucleating at least a portion of a prostate, the prostate comprising a capsule and an inner layer of prostate tissue, the method comprising:
- advancing a first probe at least partially into the patient;
- resecting a first location and a second location with a first water jet provided by a first orifice of the first probe;
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- separately enucleating a plurality of lobes of the prostate by separating the capsule from the inner layer of prostate tissue with a second water jet provided by a second orifice of a second probe.
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