Patent ID: 6183768
Filing Date: 2001-02-06
Classification: A61K,A61L

Abstract:
A surgically implantable and removable composition of a plurality of corpuscles strung together by a filament, each of said corpuscles comprising a carrier of biologically inert material and a medicine for localized treatment of body tissue diseases, said medicine being releasably confined in and being distributed in said inert material and said carriers having elongated passages for the filament and each said passage having first and second open ends, said carriers further having configurations other than an exact spheroid configuration to facilitate removal of the implanted composition and external surfaces including tapering first and second portions at said first and second open ends, respectively, to further facilitate removal of the implanted composition, at least one of said first and second portions having, at least in part, an arcuate outline in at least one transverse plane crossing the respective passage.