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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2017
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Bard Shannon Limited, Nieuwegein, NL;
Steven E. Field, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Ryan L. Goosen, Caledonia, MI (US);
Brian R. Mulder, Rockford, MI (US);
Richard M. Chesbrough, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US);
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc., Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Bard Shannon Limited, Nieuwegein, NL;
Abstract
A method of operating a tissue marking apparatus includes providing a tissue marking apparatus having a cannula, a stylet, and an imaging marker, the cannula having a peripheral wall forming a lumen and a lateral opening in the peripheral wall that is open to the lumen, and having a resilient end wall extending downwardly from the peripheral wall at a distal extent of the lateral opening, the stylet being slidably received within the lumen of the cannula for movement in the lumen; moving the stylet in a distal direction to expel the imaging marker from the lateral opening; and continue moving the stylet in the distal direction to deflect the resilient end wall of the cannula such that a distal end of the stylet passes beneath the resilient end wall to substantially close off the lateral opening of the cannula.