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US 8,617,198 B2Granted
Tissue expanders and methods of use
AssigneesAirXpanders, Inc., Shalon Ventures, Inc.
InventorsChristopher S. Jones, Daniel Jacobs, F. Mark Payne, David S. Mintz, Craig A. Purdy, Ryan S. Han, Tadmor Shalon
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Abstract
Tissue expanders and their methods of use.
Claims12
A tissue expansion system, comprising:
- an implantable tissue expander comprising an inflatable chamber completely surrounding a compressed gas reservoir, wherein the inflatable chamber is a non-elastic chamber with a pre-formed shape and is adapted to assume the preformed shape when the inflatable chamber is inflated with a gas from the compressed gas reservoir;
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- an external controller adapted to wirelessly communicate with the implantable tissue expander to control the release of the gas from the compressed gas reservoir into the inflatable chamber to inflate the inflatable chamber towards the performed shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.