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US 8,540,710 B2Granted
Methods and apparatuses for tissue treatment
AssigneeAngioDynamics, Inc.
InventorsTheodore C. Johnson, Daniel J. Balbierz, Robert M. Pearson
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Abstract
Disclosed in the present application are devices for localized delivery of energy and methods of using such devices, particularly for therapeutic treatment of biological tissues. The disclosed methods may involve positioning and deploying the energy delivery members in a target site, and delivering energy through the energy delivery members. The disclosed devices may also be used to create a tissue tract within a biological tissue and to ablate the tissue tract.
Claims25
A method of ablating a tissue tract, comprising:
- providing an energy delivery member configured for insertion into a target tissue;
- inserting the delivery member into an insertion site;
- advancing the delivery member thereby forming a tissue tract, extending from the insertion site to the target tissue, substantially five of tumor cells;
- delivering energy sufficient to ablate substantially all tumor cells in the target tissue;
- withdrawing the delivery member along the formed tissue tract;
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- delivering energy to at least a portion of the formed tissue tract.
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