APPARATUS FOR ENDOLUMINAL ACCESS TO GASTRO-INTESTINAL TRACT

Gastro-intestinal-tract endoluminal apparatus (10) for deploying markers (42, 44, 46) into a gastro-intestinal tract of a patient, the apparatus being retrievably insertable into the gastro-intestinal tract, comprising: a flexible tube (12) introducible into the gastro-intestinal tract of a patient,...

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1. Verfasser: BIADILLAH, Youssef
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Zusammenfassung:Gastro-intestinal-tract endoluminal apparatus (10) for deploying markers (42, 44, 46) into a gastro-intestinal tract of a patient, the apparatus being retrievably insertable into the gastro-intestinal tract, comprising: a flexible tube (12) introducible into the gastro-intestinal tract of a patient, the tube having a stationary end (12d) and a mobile lumen (14), the tube being extendable within the tract by inflating an inflatable region (16) of the tube around the lumen, the inflation causing distal-most invaginated material (12c) to evert outwardly such that the everted material extends a deployed length of the tube distally along a path of the gastro-intestinal tract, invaginated material (12b) of the lumen being drawn distally within the deployed tube to feed the distal extension.