Patent ID: 8460183

Claim:
A De-looping tool, comprising: a handle portion; a sleeve portion attached to said handle at a proximal end with a sleeve annular lip at a distal end of said sleeve portion; a coiled wire portion with a proximal end and a distal end; a wire annular lip at said distal end of said coiled wire portion and said proximal end of the coiled wire portion being attached to said handle; wherein said coiled wire portion is inserted through said sleeve portion, wherein a portion of said coiled wire protrudes from said sleeve portion at said distal end of said sleeve portion, wherein said wire annular lip and said sleeve annular lip encompasses the majority of an endoscope biopsy channel and wherein said sleeve annular lip is proximal to said wire annular lip relative to said handle portion; and wherein a reversibly expandable cylindrically or other polygonal shaped foam attached to said sleeve annular lip at a proximal end of said foam and attached to said wire annular lip at a distal end of said foam, wherein said expandable foam surrounds a portion of said protruding coiled wire portion, wherein said sleeve annular lip is capable of being advanced toward said wire annular lip to compress said foam; and wherein said sleeve and handle portions, when inserted into said endoscope biopsy channel, is too short in length to protrude out a distal end of said endoscope biopsy channel.