Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Manabu Ishikawa

Chie Onuma

Mitsumasa Okada

Yoshitaka Honda

Tomohisa Sakurai

Sohei Ueda

Toshiya Sugai

Kenichi Kimura

Shuichi Kimura

Hitoshi Karasawa

Hideto Yoshimine

Norikiyo Shibata

Makoto Miyawaki

Koichiro Watanabe

Susumu Komagata

Koki Tokunaga

Takamitsu Sakamoto

Masakazu Gotanda

Kenji Noda

Ken Fujisaki

Shinya Masuda

Daisuke Sano

Taisuke Sato

Michio Takayama

A joint surgical system includes, a treatment tool, a high-frequency output section which outputs high-frequency energy to the treatment tool, an ultrasonic output section which outputs ultrasonic energy to the treatment tool, a measurement section which measures a temperature of the liquid, and a control section which controls the high-frequency output section to stop output of the high-frequency energy and controls the ultrasonic output section to continue output of the ultrasonic energy when a measurement temperature measured by the measurement section is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature.

Joint surgical system

A probe unit includes, a probe configured to treat a bone by ultrasonic vibration, a hollow sheath which surrounds the probe and which has a first portion at a small distance from a central axis, and a second portion at a greater distance from the central axis than the first portion, and a knob configured to rotate the sheath relative to the probe between a first position for insertion between the bone and a living tissue facing the bone so that the first portion is located between the bone and the living tissue and a second position for insertion between the bone and the living tissue so that the second portion is located between the bone and the living tissue.

Probe unit, treatment instrument, and treatment system

A surgical procedure of preparing bone holes to fix an implanted tendon to a femur when performing reconstruction of a ligament in a knee joint, includes: bringing a treatment portion of an ultrasonic treatment instrument into contact with the femur in the knee joint, and applying ultrasonic vibration from the treatment portion to the femur, thereby cutting and forming a first bone hole from the inside of the knee joint to the femur in a predetermined depth.

Surgical procedure of knee joint

A method for replacement arthroplasty of an embodiment is losing precise cutting and surface unevenness and performing the smoothening treatment to the part of the joint region which the component of the artificial joint attaches, using an ultrasonic treatment device, and exact processing can be performed, dimensional processing accuracy also becomes high, and bonding surfaces stick it without a crevice, and it controls generating of wear debris by friction.

Method for replacement arthroplasty

A joint surgical treatment under an arthroscope, includes: excising a treatment object of a synovial membrane, by transmitting an ultrasonic vibration to a treating portion of an ultrasonic device in a state where the treating portion is in contact with the treatment object of the synovial membrane; facing the treating portion to a treatment object of a cartilage, the treating portion being used in excising the treatment object of the synovial membrane; and removing the treatment object of the cartilage, by contacting the treating portion with the treatment object of the cartilage, and by transmitting the ultrasonic vibration to the treating portion in a state where the treating portion is in contact with the treatment object of the cartilage.

Joint surgical treatment

A joint surgical treatment includes bringing a treating portion of an ultrasonic device into contact with a damaged region of a cartilage that is a treated object region in the joint, and transmitting an ultrasonic vibration to the treating portion in contact with the treated object region while observing the treated object region with the arthroscope to remove the treated object region of the cartilage. The ultrasonic vibration is used to remove the treated object so as to smoothly continue a removed surface from which the treated object region is removed and a non-removed surface adjacent to the removed surface without forming any corners between the surfaces in the cartilage.

A knee joint surgical treatment under an arthroscope includes: contacting a treating portion of an ultrasonic device with an end region to which an ACL or a PCL of a tibia adheres and with a start region to which the ACL or the PCL of a femur adheres, excising the tibia and a remaining ligament of the ACL, or the tibia and a remaining ligament of the PCL, excising the femur and a remaining ligament of the ACL, or the femur and a remaining ligament of the PCL by ultrasonically vibrating the treating portion, thereby exposing footprints of the tibia and the femur; and forming tunnels between the footprint of the tibia and a medial side of a rough surface of the tibia and between the footprint of the femur and an lateral surface of a lateral condyle of the femur.

Knee joint surgical treatment

A surgical treatment of an ACL or a PCL of a knee joint under an arthroscope, includes: contacting a treating portion of an ultrasonic device with a start region to which the ACL or the PCL of a femur adheres, and excising the femur and a remaining ligament of the ACL, or the femur and a remaining ligament of the PCL by ultrasonically vibrating the treating portion, thereby exposing a footprint of the femur; and contacting the treating portion with an end region to which the ACL or the PCL of a tibia adheres, and excising the tibia and a remaining ligament of the ACL, or the tibia and a remaining ligament of the PCL by ultrasonically vibrating the treating portion, thereby exposing a footprint of the tibia.

A surgical treatment of a ligament of a knee joint under an arthroscope, includes: forming concave holes from the region of the tibia to which the ligament adheres toward an inner side of a rough surface of the tibia and from the region of the femur to which the ligament adheres toward an outer surface of a lateral condyle of the femur by ultrasonically vibrating the treating portion; forming tunnels between the concave hole of the tibia and the medial side of the rough surface of the tibia using the concave hole of the tibia and between the concave hole of the femur and the lateral surface of the lateral condyle of the femur using the concave hole of the femur.

An elbow joint surgical treatment includes transmitting an ultrasonic vibration to a treating portion of an ultrasonic device to excise the treated object region of the synovial membrane, and bringing the treating portion of the ultrasonic device, used in excising the synovial membrane, to come in contact with an osteophyte positioned in one of a coronoid fossa of a humerus, an olecranon fossa of the humerus, a coronoid process of an ulna, and an olecranon. The surgical treatment includes transmitting an ultrasonic vibration to the treating portion in contact with the osteophyte to remove the osteophyte.

Elbow joint surgical treatment

In a plasma treatment system, a temperature detection section detecting a temperature of a perfusion layer of an electrically conductive solution is fixed to a treatment portion, and is located at a position to be immersed in the perfusion layer when a first electrode portion and a second electrode portion are immersed in the perfusion layer. In the plasma treatment system, a control section controls an adjustment of a temperature in a temperature adjustment unit and controls a supply volume and a suction volume of the electrically conductive solution on the basis of a detection result in the temperature detection section so that the temperature of the perfusion layer is within a target temperature range.

Plasma treatment system

A plasma treatment system includes a spout, a suction hole, a first electrode and a second electrode, an impedance acquisition unit, a liquid volume adjustment unit, and a first control unit. The first electrode and a second electrode are configured to generate plasma to treat a living tissue by the application of a voltage. The impedance acquisition unit acquires impedance between the first electrode and the second electrode. The liquid volume adjustment unit adjusts the supply volume or suction volume of the electrically conductive solution. The first control unit controls the liquid volume adjustment unit to increase or decrease the supply volume or suction volume of the electrically conductive solution based on the impedance.

A contact portion, provided in an exposed surface of the treating section, treats a treated object by a transmitted ultrasonic vibration while intruding into the treated object toward an intruding direction from a state being in contact with the treated object. An index portion is disposed on an anti-intruding direction side with respect to the contact portion in the exposed surface. The index portion becomes an index indicating an intruding amount of the contact portion into the treated object toward the intruding direction. The index portion includes index surfaces arranged in the intruding direction, and each of the index surfaces has an angle relative to the intruding direction which is different from the angle of the adjacent index surface.

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Manabu Ishikawa