Metal guide tube
AssigneeRakuten Medical, Inc.
InventorHideki KANEBAKO
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Abstract
The present invention is a metal guide tube that is deformable, has a shape-retention function for maintaining a deformed shape, and is configured to allow a medical instrument to be guided and inserted into the metal guide tube, and deform to allow the medical instrument to reach or approach a treatment target site.
Claims19
A metal guide tube comprising metal wires, wherein the metal wires are stacked in a mesh pattern or a structure in which the metal wires are arranged in a non-woven fabric form, and wherein the metal guide tube is deformable, has a shape-retention function for maintaining a deformed shape and is configured to allow a medical instrument to be guided and inserted into the metal guide tube.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.