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Devices for delivering substances through an extra-anatomic opening created in an airway

  • US 9,913,969 B2
  • Filed: 11/07/2016
  • Issued: 03/13/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for performing a procedure on a patient at a treatment site in an area of a lung having a suspected diseased tissue beyond and remote from an airway in the lung, the method comprising:

  • creating an opening through an airway wall of the lung with a piercing member;

    advancing a tubular member located about the piercing member into the opening such that a passageway through the tubular member extends through the airway wall;

    removing the piercing member from the tubular member such that the tubular member remains in the airway wall and the passageway of the tubular member provides an access path to the treatment site;

    advancing a distal section of a second device through the passageway of the tubular member to access the treatment site in the lung beyond the airway wall, the second device comprising an elongate flexible proximal shaft; and

    performing the procedure at the treatment site on the suspected diseased tissue via the second device after advancing the distal section of the second device through the passageway of the tubular member.

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