MARKER DEVICE AND MEHTOD OF DEPLOYING A CAVITY MARKER USING A SURGICAL BIOPSY DEVICE

摘要

A biopsy marker introduction assembly is configured for introduction through a specimen retrieval recess into a probe cutter lumen of a handheld breast biopsy handl e. Advancing the cutter causes an extending deployment rod to distally translate within a n introducer tube of the introduction assembly, pushing a biopsy marker out of a distal e nd of the probe at a surgical biopsy site. Thereby, the surgeon is able to position the prob e and effect deployment of the marker even if using the other hand to position an imaging device such as an ultrasonic transceiver.