US 8,475,361 B2Granted

Percutaneous or natural-orifice medical procedure and system therefor

AssigneeOlympus Medical Systems Corp.

InventorsDavid E Barlow, Takayasu Mikkaichi, Kensei Nakahashi

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Abstract

A medical procedure and a system are provided so that two visions are obtainable through natural orifices by means of two observational apparatuses, or one the two visions is selectable. The medical procedure through a natural orifice comprises: forming an orifice in a hollow organ by using a device inserted into the hollow organ from a natural orifice of a patient; introducing a first observation device from said orifice formed in said hollow organ into an abdominal cavity; introducing a second observation device from said orifice formed in said hollow organ into the abdominal cavity; arranging said second observation device in a position different from that of said first observation device; simultaneously or selectively displaying an image obtained from said first observation device and an image obtained from said second observation device; and performing a desired procedure in the abdominal cavity while confirming the images.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A medical operation comprising:

introducing a holding member having a first holding portion which is provided at a distal end of an insertion portion into an abdominal cavity through an opening which opens percutaneously;
introducing an introducing device having a second holding portion which detachably holds an observational device having a connecting member which is detachably connected to said first holding portion into the abdominal cavity through a natural orifice;
fixing said first holding portion to said connecting member of said observational device;
detaching said second holding portion from said first holding portion which is fixed to said observational device and to said connecting member after fixing said first holding portion to said connecting member;
and
observing said abdominal cavity by controlling a position and direction of said observational device that is fixed to said first holding portion by operating said holding member, in the state where said observational device is separated from said second holding portion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/650,123Filed 5 Jan 2007 · continuation in part
Priority: 6 Jan 2006
Published: US 2007/0161855 A11 Nov 2007
Granted: 2 Jul 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

A61B 1/041
Combined with photographic or television appliances: capsule endoscopes for imaging
A61B 1/0005
Display arrangement: combining images e.g. side-by-side, superimposed or tiled
A61B 1/00101
Characterised by distal tip features: the distal tip features being detachable
A61B 1/00105
Constructional details of the endoscope body: characterised by modular construction

Family

Application11/327,788Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 6 Jan 2006
Application60/759,119Us provisional application · filed 13 Jan 2006
US 2007/0255100 A1Pre-grant publication · published 1 Nov 2007
US 2007/0161855 A1Published application
US 8,475,361 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.