Patent ID: 6607528
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A hand-held electrosurgical cutting device comprising:a handle which has a proximal end, a distal end and an inner lumen; and an elongated manually shapeable cutting electrode, which is formed at least in part of a conductive metallic material, which has a proximal portion slidably secured within the inner lumen of the handle, which has a distal portion having transverse cross sections less than the transverse cross section of the proximal portion and having a blunt free distal end, an intermediate tapered portion extending between the proximal and distal portions, which has an exposed active metallic surface extending over the distal portion and at least part of the tapered portion and having a length of at least about 0.25 inch and a maximum transverse dimension of not greater than about 0.03 inch.