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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2015
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Yukitoshi Katou, Kanagawa, JP;
TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical device and treatment method are configured to form a hole as a passage, which is used for treatment, in biological tissues without puncturing the biological tissue and while reducing the influence on a living body The medical device includes: a shaft portion which is elongated, a pressing portion on a distal side of the shaft portion to press the tissue, and a thrusting portion provided further on the distal side of the shaft portion than the pressing portion and configured to be thrust into a joint portion of the tissue. When pressing the biological tissue using the pressing portion, a direction from the shaft portion to the pressing portion and a direction from the shaft portion to the thrusting portion are different from each other, and the pressing portion can be expanded and contracted in an expansion direction intersecting a shaft center direction of the shaft portion.
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