Patent Issued for Devices, Systems and Methods for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat and Other Portions of Mammalian Body

摘要

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Minimally invasive surgery is a surgical approach aimed at reducing the healing time and trauma to a patient as a result of performing surgery on internal organs. In this approach, the treated internal organs are accessed through a small number of incisions in the patient's body. In particular, cannulas or sleeves are inserted through small incisions to provide entry ports through which surgical instruments are passed. Alternatively, access to the area to be treated is obtained using a natural bodily opening (e.g., throat, rectum), a cannula or sleeve is inserted into the bodily opening and the surgical instruments are passed through the cannula/sleeve or the bodily opening and the operable end localized to the treatment site.