Venous access port assembly with X-ray discernable indicia
First Claim
1. An implantable venous access port assembly, comprising:
- a needle-penetrable septum; and
a housing securing the needle-penetrable septum, the housing comprising a housing base having a bottom wall, including X-ray discernable indicia embedded into a thickness of the bottom wall, wherein the X-ray discernible indicia visually indicate, under X-ray examination, an attribute of the port assembly.
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Abstract
A venous access port assembly having a housing base with a discharge port, a septum, and a cap, with an interior reservoir. The housing base is provided with X-ray discernable indicia to identify an attribute of the assembly after its implantation and clearly appear on an X-ray of the patient in a manner informing the radiologist or technologist and the medical practitioner of that particular attribute. Such indicia can be depicted as cutouts through a disc of radiopaque material where the cutouts are in the form of alphabetical letters such as “CT”, or can be a set of discrete elements of radiopaque material, that are affixed along the bottom surface of the housing base or embedded within the thickness of the bottom housing wall.
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35 Claims
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1. An implantable venous access port assembly, comprising:
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a needle-penetrable septum; and a housing securing the needle-penetrable septum, the housing comprising a housing base having a bottom wall, including X-ray discernable indicia embedded into a thickness of the bottom wall, wherein the X-ray discernible indicia visually indicate, under X-ray examination, an attribute of the port assembly. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An implantable venous access port assembly, comprising:
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a housing comprising a housing base comprising a bottom wall having X-ray discernable indicia embedded into a thickness thereof that indicate an attribute of the port assembly; a needle-penetrable septum; and a cap securing the needle-penetrable septum to the housing. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An implantable venous access port assembly, comprising:
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a housing comprising a housing base and a skirt overmolded around at least a portion of the housing base, the housing base comprising a bottom wall including a thickness, wherein X-ray discernable indicia that indicate an attribute of the port assembly are embedded into the thickness; a needle-penetrable septum; and a cap securing the needle-penetrable septum to the housing. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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