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Device incorporating a hollow element for being positioned along a body cavity of a patient and method of positioning the same

  • US 20030208223A1
  • Filed: 04/21/2003
  • Published: 11/06/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of positioning an elongate hollow element along a body cavity in a patient, wherein the hollow element has a leading region and a trailing region, and the method comprises:

  • causing the hollow element to be everted progressively along the hollow element from the leading region thereof such that the hollow element is forced to be increasingly extended and thereby progressively line a surrounding wall defining the body cavity as the trailing region follows along; and

    wherein the hollow element self navigates along within the body cavity following a path determined by the surrounding wall defining the body cavity.

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