Michael J. Stokes,Thomas E. Albrecht,Mark S. Ortiz,Mark S. Zeiner,Andrew M. Zwolinski,Frederick E. Shelton, IV
申请号：
US11394174
公开号：
US08118820B2
申请日:
2006.03.31
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
A method for inserting an instrument through a natural orifice. The instrument has a low profile orientation and a deployed orientation which is larger than the size of the natural orifice through which it is to be inserted. The method is achieved by coupling the instrument to an endoscope and placing the instrument in its low profile orientation, inserting the endoscope and the instrument through a natural orifice to a target position within a body while the instrument is in its low profile orientation, actuating the instrument to it is deployed orientation, and returning the instrument to its low profile orientation and withdrawing the instrument from the body through the natural orifice.
