Title:
EAR TUBES
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2006137054
Kind Code:
B1
Abstract:
The invention provides a flexible ear tube (10) for draining and ventilating the middle ear, the tube (10) having a flexible substantially tubular stem (12) with a lumen (14), the stem (12) being sized to be inserted through an incision in the eardrum (16) and the tube having at least two separate flexible contact surfaces (18) extending from the stem (12) and adapted to engage different spaced-apart inner surfaces of the eardrum 16, each of the contact surfaces (18) having a first axis XX extending substantially perpendicularly to the central axis of the stem and a second axis YY extending substantially perpendicularly to the first axis wherein one of the axes is between 0.6 and 3 mm and the second of the axes is between 1 and 7 mm in length.
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Inventors:
COHEN DAVID (IL)
Application Number:
PCT/IL2006/000689
Publication Date:
April 12, 2007
Filing Date:
June 15, 2006
Export Citation:
Assignee:
OTOMEDICS ADVANCED MEDICAL TEC (IL)
COHEN DAVID (IL)
COHEN DAVID (IL)
International Classes:
A61F11/00
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