Surgical specimen mapping mechanism
AssigneeEmet Surgical
InventorRobert Witkow
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Abstract
The herein disclosed invention constitutes a surgical specimen margin orientation marking mechanism comprising a plurality of surgical specimen margin markers configured to provide a mapping between a tumor mass and surrounding tissue, wherein the improvement comprises each surgical specimen margin marker comprising sutures placed on tissue to identify one or more locations at which tissue is to be removed or surrounding tissue.
Claims4
A surgical specimen margin orientation marking mechanism comprises a plurality of surgical specimen margin markers configured to provide a mapping between a tumor mass and surrounding tissue, wherein the improvement comprises each surgical specimen margin marker comprising sutures placed on tissue to identify one or more locations at which tissue is to be removed or surrounding tissue.
A method of marking a tumor mass and surrounding tissue comprising:
- positioning a central marking suture to identify a midpoint of said mass;
- positioning a first set of sutures within said mass at locations around said central marking clip, and positioning a second set of sutures at corresponding locations of surrounding tissue
A surgical specimen margin orientation marking mechanism comprises a plurality of surgical specimen margin markers configured to provide a mapping between a tumor mass and surrounding tissue, wherein the improvement comprises each surgical specimen margin marker comprising sutures without clips placed on tissue to identify one or more locations at which tissue is to be removed or surrounding tissue.
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