Patent ID: 6840909

Claim:
A micro-endoscope assembly for the removal of tissue and cells from breast ducts comprising a cylindrical guide tube including an inner wall defining an internal cylindrical passageway, a smaller diameter cylindrical tube concentrically mounted in said cylindrical passageway to form a cylindrical space there between forming an irrigation/aspiration chamber, a light guide and lens tube eccentrically mounted in said smaller diameter cylindrical tube and adapted to receive therein a light guide and lens, a plurality of illumination fibers mounted in said smaller cylindrical tube engaging an outer wall of said light guide and lens tube holding the same in place within the smaller diameter cylindrical tube and a laser fiber mounted and received in said smaller diameter cylindrical tube between the outer wall of said light guide and lens tube and said inner wall of said cylindrical guide tube engaging the outer wall of said light guide and lens tube and surrounded by and engaging directly against said illumination fibers.