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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2004
Andrew T. Beckman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Rick D. Applegate, Florence, KY (US);
Michael E. Boehm, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William A. Garrison, Springdale, OH (US);
Douglas N. Ladd, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Andrew T. Beckman, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Rick D. Applegate, Florence, KY (US);
Michael E. Boehm, Cincinnati, OH (US);
William A. Garrison, Springdale, OH (US);
Douglas N. Ladd, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A biopsy marker introduction assembly is configured for introduction through a specimen retrieval recess into a probe cutter lumen of a handheld breast biopsy handle. Advancing the cutter causes an extending deployment rod to distally translate within an introducer tube of the introduction assembly, pushing a biopsy marker out of a distal end of the probe at a surgical biopsy site. Thereby, the surgeon is able to position the probe and effect deployment of the marker even if using the other hand to position an imaging device such as an ultrasonic transceiver.