Compression part, and medical compression apparatus employing same

US5913863A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Hubertus Fischer · Bamberg, DE
• Heinrich Kolem · Effeltrich, DE
• Manfred Bauer · Roßtal, DE
• Reiner Habrich · Tauberbischofsheim, DE
• Sylvia Heywang-Koebrunner · Bad Kötzting, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 6, 1998
• Grant date: Jun 22, 1999
• Expiry date: Mar 6, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01R33/28
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a medical compression apparatus and a compression part therefor, the compression part has a number of access openings therein allowing an instrument, such as a biopsy needle, to be inserted through one of the openings into a body part compressed by the apparatus. The compression part allows the access openings to be alterable in size and/or shape.