Patent ID: 8292904
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. Method for the intraluminal transanal treatment of body tissuelower rectum pathologies comprising the steps of: providing a device having a handle, a head and a curvilinear shaft longitudinally extended between the handle and the head, said head comprising two curvilinear jaws, movable between an open position, in which said jaws open a window laterally to the longitudinally shaft extension, and a closed position, providing an anoscope comprising an insertion portion and a grip portion, wherein the insertion portion comprises a substantially tubular wall having a tubular proximal section extending distally from said grip portion, a truncated cone shaped distal section and a central section extending between the proximal section and the distal section, and a window opening formed in said central section and distal section and opening on a distal end of the anoscope, transanally inserting the anoscope and positioning the window opening of the anoscope at a body tissue, grasping the tissue through the window opening, inserting the device inside the anoscope and placing the head of the device through the window opening of the anoscope at the tissue to be treated, locally placing the head on the single tissue; grasping and pulling the tissue through the window opening of the anoscope and through the window defined by the head of the device, closing the jaws, locking the tissue and surrounding tissue portions, uniting the surrounding tissue portions at the zone wherein the tissue is locked between the jaws.