Biopsy Needle
name: label: maker
content: MacGregor Instrument Company
notes: label: Description
content: VIM Silverman stainless steel biopsy needle with a cannula and a director, used to obtain tissue from tumors and organs. Irving Silverman (b. 1904) was a physician in Brooklyn. VIM needles were manufactured by the MacGregor Instrument Co. in Needham, Mass.
label: Description
content: Ref: Irving Silverman, “Biopsy Needle,” U.S. Patent 2,198,319 (April 23, 1938).
label: Description
content: Irving Silverman, “Biopsy Needle,” U.S. Patent 2,705,949 (April 12, 1955).
label: Description
content: Irving Silverman, “Biopsy Device,” U.S. Patent 3,001,522 (Sept. 26, 1961).
label: Description
content: Irving Silverman, “Improved VIM-Silverman Biopsy Needle,” Journal of the American Medical Association 155 (1954): 1060-1061.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Pharmacy
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gerald E. Stone, M.D. and Lois Greene Stone
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0552.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0552.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0552
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Needle, Biopsy
label: Object Name
content: needle, biopsy
label: Object Name
content: syringe
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 1.1 cm x 12.3 cm x 1.3 cm; 7/16 in x 4 13/16 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 14.1 cm x 1.4 cm; x 5 9/16 in x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: needle: 1/2 in x 4 7/8 in x 5/8 in; 1.27 cm x 12.3825 cm x 1.5875 cm
label: Measurements
content: needle: 5 1/2 in x 1/2 in; x 13.97 cm x 1.27 cm