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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1992
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1990
Akira Sogawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Chiba, JP;
Chikau Onodera, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Onuma, Kukizaki, JP;
Kureha Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electrode device for heating a tumor in an endotract organ by high frequency convergent electric current has a container of a flexible polymeric material provided with thick side wall, a thick bottom wall connected to one end of the side wall and an opening defined by the other end of the side wall. The device further has a deformable electrode member disposed near an inner surface of the thick bottom wall, and a flexible polymeric film fluid-tightly attached to the other end of the thick side wall. A mesh-like member of a flexible polymeric material is disposed between the electrode member and the flexible polymeric film, and has a plurality of first passages leading to a top surface thereof and a bottom surface thereof, and a plurality of second passages each communicating the first passages with each other.