Surgical assemblies facilitating tissue marking and methods of use thereof
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorsOSVALDO ANDRES BARRERA, KASEY A. GRIM, JOE D. SARTOR
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Abstract
A method of marking a tumor includes positioning a surgical instrument adjacent breast tissue, generating an image of a tumor in the breast tissue on a display using an ultrasonic probe of the surgical instrument, aligning a needle of the surgical instrument with the tumor using the image of the tumor generated on the display, deploying the needle from the ultrasound probe into the breast tissue, and deploying an elongated tissue marker from the needle into the tumor, thereby fixing a distal portion of the tissue marker in the tumor.
Claims28
A method of marking a tumor, comprising:
- positioning a surgical instrument adjacent breast tissue;
- generating an image of a tumor in the breast tissue on a display using an ultrasonic probe of the surgical instrument;
- aligning a needle of the surgical instrument with the tumor using the image of the tumor generated on the display;
- deploying the needle from the ultrasound probe into the breast tissue;
- and
- deploying an elongated tissue marker from the needle into the tumor, thereby fixing a distal portion of the tissue marker in the tumor.
A method of marking a tumor, comprising:
- generating an image of a tumor in the breast tissue using an ultrasonic probe;
- aligning an elongated tissue marker with the tumor using the image of the tumor;
- deploying the tissue marker from the ultrasonic probe into the tumor;
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- transitioning a plurality of fixation elements of the tissue marker from a collapsed state into an expanded state to fix a distal portion of the tissue marker in the tumor.
A method of marking a tumor, comprising:
- inserting an elongated tissue marker into a tumor disposed in breast tissue;
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- transitioning a plurality of fixation elements of the tissue marker from a collapsed state into an expanded state, in which the plurality of fixation elements anchor a distal portion of the tissue marker in the tumor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.