VENOUS ACCESS PORT ASSEMBLY WITH X-RAY DISCERNABLE INDICIA

摘要

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.

主权项

1. An implantable venous access port assembly, comprising:
a needle-penetrable septum; and a housing security the needle-penetrable septum, the housing comprising a housing base having a bottom wall including X-ray discernable indicia that visually indicate, under X-ray examination, an attribute of the port assembly.