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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
May. 29, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gerald L Wolf, Winchester, MA (US);
David M Long, El Cajon, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp., San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01N / ; A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424-5 ; 424-4 ; 424-9 ; 514492 ; 514502 ; 514715 ; 514723 ; 514832 ; 514937 ; 514938 ; 514941 ; 514943 ;
Abstract
Injectable contrast agents of great clinical importance for lymphography, characterized by non-water soluble particle sizes between about 5 or 10 nm and about 500 or 900 nm, which have selective distribution to lymph nodes upon percutaneous administration and can be imaged with millimeter resolution. Also disclosed are methods for performing percutaneous lymphography using these contrast agents.