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Electrosurgical instrument

  • US 4,657,017 A
  • Filed: 07/30/1985
  • Issued: 04/14/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/01/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An electrosurgical instrument, comprising a disk-shaped cutting assembly which has an outer periphery and which includes two ring-shaped electrodes isolated by a disk of an insulating material, a power actuator drivingly connected to the disk-shaped assembly to impart rotation to the disk-shaped assembly, and current leads electrically connected to respective ones of the ring-shaped electrodes, one of the electrodes and the insulating disk each having a segmental outer portion removed essentially along a chordal cut and a segmental outer portion of the other electrode standing over the segmental cut defining a knife having a cutting edge which extends along a circular arc the size of which is not in excess of 90 arc degrees of the outer periphery of the disk-shaped cutting assembly, so that the knife and an electrical field established across the ring-shaped electrodes cause cyclic mechanical cutting of tissue and electrocoagulation of cut tissue, respectively, as the disk-shaped cutting assembly is rotated by the power actuator.

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