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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:
Feb. 24, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2002
Applicant:
Inventor:
Nagy Adly Habib, London, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/900 ;
Abstract
Blood loss during solid organ surgery where diseased tissue is removed from the solid organ by delivery of thermal energy by one or more probes. The blood loss is stemmed by effecting coagulative necrosis of solid organ in the zone adjacent the probe(s). The or each probe can have means for cooling tissue in the vicinity of the tip of the probe. The method can be applied, inter alia, to liver and spleen surgery.