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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 20, 1985
Yoshio Shishido, Sagamihara, JP;
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
This invention relates to means for picking up the ovum from the ovarian follicle of mother's body for external fertilization and, more especially, to endoscope means and tool for picking up the ovum wherein the ovum is picked up under visual observation by means of an endoscope and the tool for picking up the ovum is employed by inserting it through the channel of the endoscope so that the abdominal wall of the mother's body is only provided with a hole for inserting the endoscope. The tool for picking up the ovum comprises a fine tube having a small hole at the tip thereof inserted slidably through a sheath tube and having cutting edge at the tip thereof into the ovarian follicle and by aspirating an aspirator needle or fine tube protruded from the small hole.