摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a medical retrieval basket without substantially projecting distal end basket base end or basket tip end . SOLUTION: This basket 10 is equipped with a sheath 12 with a proximal end and a distal end and has a handle 8 positioned at the proximal end of the sheath 12. The basket 10 allows the capture of material from a body and has a collapsed position wherein the basket 10 is surrounded in the sheath 12 and an extended position wherein the basket 10 is extended from the distal end of the sheath 12. The basket 10 can have four or more legs 11a, 11b, 11c, 11d (for instance, six or eight legs). COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |