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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2007
C. Paul Perry, Birmingham, AL (US);
Richard P. Marvel, Baltimore, MD (US);
Benjamin T. Biltz, Bloomington, IN (US);
Rodney W. Bosley, Jr., Chester Springs, PA (US);
Jessica Watts Miller, St. Louis, MO (US);
Troy W. Wingler, Martinsville, IN (US);
C. Paul Perry, Birmingham, AL (US);
Richard P. Marvel, Baltimore, MD (US);
Benjamin T. Biltz, Bloomington, IN (US);
Rodney W. Bosley, Jr., Chester Springs, PA (US);
Jessica Watts Miller, St. Louis, MO (US);
Troy W. Wingler, Martinsville, IN (US);
Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Bloomington, IN (US);
Abstract
A single device is provided for performing hysterography and intrauterine venography having a marker that aids in positioning the device within the patient, having a bulb-tip to seal the cervix, having a bulb-tip opening to allow an image enhancing medium to be discharged from a needle and injected into the uterus to perform the hysterography, having a needle to discharge and inject an image enhancing medium into the fundal myometrium to perform the intrauterine venography, and having a needle securing mechanism to secure the needle to prevent patient injury during transcervical introduction of the device.