APPARATUS AND METHOD TO TREAT A DISEASE PROCESS IN A LUMINAL STRUCTURE

This invention is an apparatus, and a method to treat a disease process in the vicinity of a luminal structure. The apparatus comprises a balloon catheter (10) having a balloon (18), and a tube segment (24) of radioactive material located either inside the balloon (18) or outside the balloon (18). L...

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1. Verfasser:	WEINBERGER, JUDAH, Z
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre
Schlagworte:	DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY ELECTROTHERAPY HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE MAGNETOTHERAPY MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE RADIATION THERAPY ULTRASOUND THERAPY
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Zusammenfassung:	This invention is an apparatus, and a method to treat a disease process in the vicinity of a luminal structure. The apparatus comprises a balloon catheter (10) having a balloon (18), and a tube segment (24) of radioactive material located either inside the balloon (18) or outside the balloon (18). L'invention concerne un appareil et un procédé permettant de traiter un processus pathologique à proximité d'une structure luminale. L'appareil comprend un cathéter à ballonnet (10) pourvu d'un ballonnet (18), et d'un segment de tube (24) de matériau radioactif, situé soit à l'intérieur du ballonnet (18) soit à l'extérieur dudit ballonnet (18).