Patent ID: 11944509
Assignee: HOLOGIC, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  F  G | IPC A  G

Claim 6:
7. A surgical implant for placement within a surgically created cavity, the surgical implant comprising:
a flexible body made of woven biodegradable filaments, the flexible body forming a hollow, spheroid support structure with an open architecture and an equatorial region extending between first and second polar regions, wherein the hollow, spheroid support structure is configured, after placement of the surgical implant into the surgically created cavity, to conform to a shape of the surgically created cavity to fill the surgically created cavity and to provide structural support to tissue forming the surgically created cavity, while allowing seroma fluid and tissue to pass through the hollow, spheroid support structure; and
a plurality of radiopaque markers secured at various locations along a peripheral surface of the hollow, spheroid support structure.