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Method for treating obstructed paranasal ethmoid sinuses

  • US 7,854,744 B2
  • Filed: 05/15/2008
  • Issued: 12/21/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of treating a space in a patient'"'"'s ethmoid sinus, comprising:

  • providing a catheter device comprising an expandable and contractible member which is expandable from a first smaller contracted profile to a second larger expanded profile;

    creating an opening into the ethmoid sinus;

    during the same medical procedure, pushing said member while in said contracted profile through the opening into the space associated with the ethmoid sinus of said patient;

    expanding said member to said expanded profile to enlarge the space, the space being enlarged when the member is expanded; and

    removing the catheter from the now enlarged space, which remains enlarged for a period of time effective to treat the space associated with the ethmoid sinus after the balloon catheter is removed.

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