METHOD FOR INSTRUMENT INSERTION THROUGH A BODY ORIFICE

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 instrume nt 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 lo w profile orientation, actuating the instrument to it is deployed orientation, and returning the instrument to its low profile orientation and withdrawing the instrument fro m the body through the natural orifice.