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US 4,732,161 AGranted
Device for treatment through hyperthermia
AssigneeC.G.R. MeV
InventorsGuy Azam, Guy Convert, Jean M. Cosset, Jacques Dufour, Jean P. Mabire
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a device for treatment by hyperthermia, comprising unipolar probes adapted to be disposed in an area to be treated of a patient, and comprising vector tubes intended to be implanted in the said area to be treated and to contain, at each hyperthermia session the said unipolar probes.
Claims10
A device for treatment through hyperthermia comprising:
- at least one generator;
- at least two unipolar electrodes connected to said generator, said generator supplying an alternating electric energy, the said electric energy being applied, according to an electric field, to an area to be treated of a patient by means of said unipolar electrodes connected to the said generator, at least one of the said unipolar electrodes being an implantable unipolar probe, said device further comprising at least one vector tube adapted to be implanted permanently in the area to be treated by crossing through the patient's skin and to contain one of the said unipolar probes during a hyperthermia session the said vector tube comprising at least one tubular end formed of an insulating material and extended by a metallic tube, the said metallic tube being adapted to contain at least partially the said unipolar probe and to be in contact with the said area to be treated, and the said tubular end being adapted to be situated at the level of the skin, the said unipolar probe being introduced through the said tubular end into the said metallic tube with which the said unipolar probe is in electrical contact.
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