Lifting method for lesion area, and anchoring device
AssigneeOlympus Medical Systems Corp.
InventorsTakayuki Suzuki, Takeshi Ohdaira
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Abstract
A lifting method for a lesion area of the present invention includes: a step of introducing an anchoring tool having a magnetic body and an anchor into a hollow organ having a lesion area, by using a working channel inserted from a natural opening into the hollow organ; a step of anchoring the anchoring tool, by sequentially placing the anchor in a predetermined position around the lesion area, so as to arrange a plurality of the magnetic bodies around the lesion area; and a step of lifting a tissue including the lesion area, by attracting the magnetic bodies using the magnetic field generation tool arranged on the outside of the hollow organ.
Claims10
A lifting method for a lesion area, comprising:
- a step of introducing at least three anchoring tools, each having its own separate soft magnetic body and an anchor into a hollow organ having a lesion area, by using a working channel inserted from a natural opening into the hollow organ;
- a step of anchoring the at least three anchoring tools, by sequentially placing the at least three anchoring tools in predetermined positions outside of the lesion area to define a border between a normal tissue area and the lesion area so as to arrange a plurality of the soft magnetic bodies which are not attracted to each other around the lesion area in a state that the plurality of the soft magnetic bodies are unmagnetized;
- a step of creating at least three lifting points using the at least three anchoring tools around the lesion area including the normal tissue;
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- a step of lifting portions including the border between the normal tissue area and the lesion area and being around the at least three lifting points in a substantially vertical direction with respect to the lesion area by magnetizing the at least three soft magnetic bodies using a magnetic field generation tool arranged on the outside of the hollow organ so that the at least three anchoring tools are attracted to the magnetic field generation tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.