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US 2021/0259684 A1Published application
Degradable surgical staples and methods of using same
AssigneeCovidien LP
InventorsGerald N. Hodgkinson, Stanislaw Z. Marczyk, Andrew M. Miesse, Robert H. Knapp
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Abstract
A surgical stapler deploys staples made of selectively degradable materials. Tissue resected with a stapler of the present disclosure, including staples made of the selectively degradable materials, may be subjected to treatment in the lab to degrade those materials forming the staples. In this way, a pathologist or similar hospital personnel may rapidly degrade the staples, thereby permitting testing of the entire resected tissue sample for the presence of disease.
Claims15
A method comprising:
- introducing to a patient a surgical stapler, the stapler including staples formed of a degradable material;
- using the stapler to staple tissue adjacent an undesired portion of an organ and cutting the tissue to obtain a resected tissue sample;
- removing the resected tissue sample from the patient;
- and
- contacting the staples with a solution to degrade the degradable material forming the staples.
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A method comprising:
- introducing to a patient a surgical stapler, the stapler including staples formed of a degradable material;
- using the stapler to staple tissue adjacent an undesired portion of an organ and cutting the tissue to obtain a resected tissue sample;
- removing the resected tissue sample from the patient;
- contacting the staples with a solution to degrade the degradable material forming the staples;
- and
- testing the resected tissue sample to determine the presence of a disease in the resected tissue sample.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.