Patent ID: 7959573

Claim:
A needle-guide device for an ultrasound probe comprising a base body having means for connection to the probe and a plurality of elongated guide holes constructed and arranged to simultaneously house and guide a plurality of surgical tools, two of said plurality of surgical tools defining a first geometric plane and another of said plurality of surgical tools being disposed in a second geometric plane, wherein said first geometric plane is different from said second geometric plane, wherein said needle-guide device is made of at least two removably connectable parts, which are shaped in such a manner that each of them forms complementary parts of a peripheral delimiting wall of each of said elongated guide holes for a needle, which peripheral wall parts complete each other when said two parts of the needle-guide device are connected, thereby forming each of said elongated guide holes for guiding the needle with a 360 degree covering delimiting wall, wherein said needle-guide device is further comprised of a base part to be secured to the probe and of a removable part, a separation plane or surface being provided between the at least two parts, which is parallel to the axis of the corresponding elongated guide hole, and is secant or at least tangent to the corresponding hole, said two parts have mutual abutment surfaces and combinations of grooves and walls in the mutual abutment surfaces of said two parts which, by their mutual engagement, form the complementary parts of the surfaces delimiting each of said elongated guide holes of the needle-guide device, so that, by separating said at least two parts, all the elongated guide holes are longitudinally open on at least one portion of a side.