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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
May. 31, 2019
Interscope, Inc., Whitinsville, MA (US);
Jeffery B. Ryan, Jr., Whitinsville, MA (US);
INTERSCOPE, INC., Whitinsville, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for removing materials from a subject can include inserting an endoscope into the subject through an esophagus of the subject; introducing, through a cavity wall of a stomach of the subject to access a site within the subject outside the stomach, an endoscopic tool coupled with the endoscope; actuating a cutting assembly of the endoscopic tool to cut material at the site, the material associated with at least one of a pancreatic fluid collection in a pancreas of the subject or an extra-pancreatic fluid collection external to the pancreas; and applying suction to a first end of an aspiration channel of the endoscopic tool to remove the material through the aspiration channel, the aspiration channel extending from the first end to a second end at an opening of the cutting assembly.