Surgical system for and a method of identifying an incision site
AssigneeColoplast A/S
InventorsNeal Poucher, Fernando El-Hage
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Abstract
A surgical system for and a method of identifying an incision site includes a surgical system having an intra-urethral probe and a template. The probe has a distal end opposite of a proximal end that is insertable into a urethra of a patient. The probe is sized and configured to prevent the proximal end of the probe from entering a bladder of the patient. A proximal end portion of the probe is magnetized to a first polarity. The template is sized for placement between an anus and a scrotum of the patient. The template includes a magnetic region magnetically attractable to the first polarity of the probe.
Claims3
A method of identifying an incision site for implantation of an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS), the method comprising:
- inserting a magnetized distal end of a probe into a urethra of a patient;
- placing a template on perineal skin and magnetically attracting a magnetic region of the template to the magnetized distal end of the probe;
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- forming an incision in the perineal skin at a location where the magnetic region of the template is magnetically attracted to the distal end of the probe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.