|Publication number||US6958044 B2|
|Application number||US 10/004,987|
|Publication date||25 Oct 2005|
|Filing date||4 Dec 2001|
|Priority date||3 Mar 1998|
|Also published as||CA2341528A1, CA2341528C, EP1109496A2, EP1109496B1, US6540693, US7264596, US7329228, US8229553, US9216012, US20020007130, US20020052564, US20020087095, US20050143674, US20050245842, US20060094983, US20120277626, WO2000012009A2, WO2000012009A3, WO2000012009A8|
|Publication number||004987, 10004987, US 6958044 B2, US 6958044B2, US-B2-6958044, US6958044 B2, US6958044B2|
|Inventors||Fred H. Burbank, Paul Lubock, Michael L. Jones, Richard L. Quick|
|Original Assignee||Senorx, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (59), Referenced by (57), Classifications (50), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application is a continuation of patent application Ser. No. 09/146,185, filed Sep. 1, 1998, now 6,540,693 which is a continuation-in-part of patent application Ser. No. 09/057,303, filed Apr. 8, 1998 now 6,331,166, which claims benefit to provisional patent application Ser. No. 60/076,973, filed Mar. 3, 1998, all of which applications are hereby incorporated herein by reference in their entirety and from which priority is hereby claimed under 35 U.S.C. §§119(e) and 120.
The present invention relates to methods and devices for ensuring that a medical instrument remains in a desired location within a patient's body during a medical procedure, and more particularly to methods and devices for affixing a distal end of the medical instrument to the desired location using adhesives.
It is often desirable and frequently necessary to sample or remove a portion of tissue from humans and other animals, particularly in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with cancerous tumors, pre-malignant conditions, and other diseases or disorders.
Typically, in the case of cancer, particularly cancer of the breast, there is a great emphasis on early detection and diagnosis through the use of screening modalities, such as physical examination, and particularly mammography, which is capable of detecting very small abnormalities, often nonpalpable. When the physician establishes by means of a mammogram or other screening modality, such as ultrasound, that suspicious circumstances exist, a biopsy must be performed to capture tissue for a definitive diagnosis as to whether the suspicious lesion is cancerous. Biopsy may be done by an open or percutaneous technique. Open biopsy is a surgical procedure using a scalpel and involving direct vision of the target area, for removing the entire mass (excisional biopsy) or a part of the mass (incisional biopsy). Percutaneous biopsy, on the other hand, is usually done with a needle-like instrument through a relatively small incision, blindly or with the aid of an artificial imaging device, and may be either a fine needle aspiration (FNA) or a core biopsy. In FNA biopsy, individual cells or clusters of cells are obtained for cytologic examination and may be prepared such as in a Papanicolaou smear. In core biopsy, as the term suggests, a core or fragment of tissue is obtained for histologic examination which may be done via a frozen section or paraffin section.
The type of biopsy utilized depends in large part on circumstances present with respect to the patient, including the location of the lesion(s) within the body, and no single procedure is ideal for all cases. However, core biopsy is extremely useful in a number of conditions and is being used more frequently by the medical profession.
When an open surgical biopsy procedure is indicated, current practice dictates the use of lesion localization needles and devices, commonly referred to as “localization wires”, for use in localizing or marking non-palpable lesions and tumors within the body. These devices generally comprise a hypodermic needle or cannula which is inserted into the body under local anesthesia to the lesion or tissue of interest. The wire marker, or localization wire, is then passed through the cannula and extends through the lesion of interest so that the distal end thereof is anchored beyond the lesion. Thus, the lesion is marked for subsequent surgical procedures such as excision or biopsy. The anchoring procedure is typically accomplished by means of mechanical structure disposed at the distal end of the wire marker, such as a barb, hook, or the like, which is attached to surrounding tissue. After marking the lesion with the wire marker, the cannula is usually removed from the body, leaving the wire in place and extending from the body, for subsequent use by the surgeon during the biopsy procedure in identifying the lesion location. However, it often occurs that the barb or hook at the distal end of the wire marker attaches to something other than the tumor or lesion. For example, in the case of breast biopsies, the breast will typically be placed in compression during the imaging procedure in order to properly identify the location of the target lesion and place the localization wire. However, breast tissue is comprised of fibrous bands which, in compression, may be close to the target lesion and inadvertently engaged by the barb of the localization wire. Later, when the breast is released from compression prior to the surgical procedure, the fibrous bands will move away from the target lesion, and the distal end of the localization wire may thus move a substantial distance away from the target lesion.
It would be desirable, therefore, to develop a localization wire system and method wherein the distal end of the localization wire could be positively attached to the target lesion in order to minimize the possibility of migration of the distal end of the localization wire away from the target lesion between the imaging and surgical procedures.
In circumstances where a core biopsy procedure is indicated, various systems are available. Such systems are shown, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,526,822 to Burbank et al, which discloses a probe having a laterally disposed tissue receiving port at the distal end thereof for acquiring relatively small tissue samples, and in U.S. Pat. No. 5,111,828 to Kornberg et al., which discloses a probe having an axially disposed tissue receiving port at the distal end thereof for acquiring relatively large intact tissue samples. Both of these patents are expressly incorporated by reference herein.
U.S. application Ser. No. 09/057,303 to Burbank et al., commonly assigned with the present application and expressly incorporated by reference herein, discloses still another core biopsy apparatus, which advantageously permits the acquisition of tissue samples which are larger in diameter than the diameter of the instrument lumen, thereby greatly increasing the chances of completely removing the target lesion and leaving “clean” margins thereabout.
As in the case of localization wires, there is some risk in using any of the foregoing devices that the distal end of the instrument will migrate away from the target lesion during the biopsy procedure, thereby reducing the likelihood of removing target tissue. Heretofore, in the case of core biopsy procedures, the risk of this occurrence is minimized by employing image guidance techniques during the entire tissue removal procedure. For example, in the case of the '822 Burbank et al. patent, a stereotactic imaging guidance system is typically utilized during the disclosed procedure. One disadvantage of this approach, however, is that the patient's breast must remain in compression during the entire procedure, with attendant discomfort and increased procedural difficulty, in order to properly utilize the imaging equipment. Furthermore, stereotactic imaging equipment or other suitable alternatives can cost as much as $400,000 or more and is not in the usual inventory of a typical community hospital. It would therefore be quite advantageous if a method and apparatus could be developed which would permit the uncoupling of the imaging environment from the procedural environment without undue risk that the active or cutting end of the core biopsy instrument would migrate away from the target lesion during the interval between the imaging procedure and the biopsy procedure.
The present invention solves the problems outlined above by describing devices and methods for securely affixing a localization wire to desired tissue in a patient's body, so that after the patient is moved from the imaging environment to the procedural environment, the practitioner will have assurance that the localization wire is still accurately placed. Additionally, devices and methods are described for ensuring that the distal end of a tissue acquisition instrument, such as a biopsy instrument, is securely affixed to a particular target area, such as a lesion, in a patient's body, thereby advantageously permitting the imaging environment to be uncoupled from the procedural environment so that expensive and often unavailable imaging equipment, such as stereotactic imaging equipment, need not be used.
More particularly, in one aspect of the invention a medical device is provided comprising a tube having a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis, wherein the device is adapted for placement of the distal end thereof into a patient's body at a desired location. The medical device includes a fixation agent, which may comprise any one of a bonding agent, a mechanical fixation agent, or an electrosurgical coagulation element, disposed on the distal end thereof, which is adapted for affixing the distal end of the medical device at the desired location.
The medical device may comprise, for example, a localization wire for use in connection with an open biopsy procedure. Alternatively, the device may comprise a tissue acquisition instrument, such as a biopsy instrument. In the preferred embodiment, the fixation agent is a bonding agent, comprising a surgical adhesive, glue, or solvent.
In another aspect of the invention, a tissue acquisition instrument is provided for retrieving body tissue, having a longitudinal axis and which comprises a distal end adapted for entry into a patient's body, a cutting element disposed on the instrument for cutting surrounding tissue, and structure disposed on the distal end for securing the tissue acquisition instrument at a predetermined desired location, in order to ensure that the tissue acquisition instrument remains in place during a tissue acquisition procedure so that desired tissue is properly acquired.
In yet another aspect of the invention, a method of performing a medical procedure is provided, using a medical device comprising a tube having a distal end, a proximal end, and a longitudinal axis. The method first comprises the step of placing the distal end of the tube in a patient's body, so that the distal end is disposed in a desired tissue location. Then, a bonding agent is dispensed for the tube into tissue surrounding the distal end, so that the distal end of the tube becomes affixed to the desired tissue location.
In still another aspect of the invention, a method is provided for performing a tissue acquisition procedure using a tissue acquisition instrument having a distal end, a proximal end, a longitudinal axis, and a cutting element. In this method, the distal end of the instrument is placed into a patient's body, so that the distal end is disposed in a desired tissue location. Then, the distal end of the instrument is affixed to the desired tissue location, so that the instrument does not move relative to the desired tissue location during the tissue acquisition procedure. The cutting element is then actuated to acquire one or more tissue samples.
The invention, together with additional features and advantages thereof, may best be understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying illustrative drawing.
Referring now more particularly to the drawings,
Once the catheter 12 and introducer needle 14 are in position relative to the target tissue, the introducer needle 14 is removed proximally from the catheter 12, and the localization wire 16 is inserted distally through the entry hole 20 and pushed distally through the lumen in the catheter 12, so that the distal end of the localization wire 16 extends distally of the distal end of the introducer needle and catheter, as shown in
Localization wires such as the wire 16 typically include some type of mechanical anchoring means, such as a barb or hook 26, for securing the distal end of the localization wire 16 in position behind the target tissue. However, this approach is often inadequate, as discussed supra in the Background portion of the specification, because the tissue to which the hook 26 becomes attached will often shift relative to the target tissue between the imaging step of the medical procedure, which is usually a biopsy, such as a breast biopsy, and the ensuing surgical step, which usually takes place in a different area of the hospital and requires transportation and resultant jostling of the patient from the radiology department to the operating room. The present invention, therefore, contemplates an advantageous additional step of employing a bonding agent, which may comprise any known material which is capable of creating a bond between the distal end of the medical instrument 10 and surrounding tissue. Once the localization wire is properly placed at the desired target tissue site, under imaging guidance, the bonding agent is dispensed from the distal end of the medical instrument to the surrounding tissue to create the desired bond. In the embodiment of
Preferred bonding agents include any known effective biocompatible bonding materials, such as surgical adhesives, including cyanoacrylate, fibrin glue, and solvents.
An alternative to injection of the bonding agent through the lumen of the medical instrument 10 is illustrated in FIG. 8. The bonding agent 33 may be stored in a rupturable container 34 which is disposed in the distal end of the medical instrument 10, adjacent to the infusion ports 28. When it is desired to release the bonding agent 33 through the infusion ports, a puncturing device 36 may be actuated by the practitioner to rupture the container 34. In the illustrated embodiment, the device 36 comprises a simple “spear” which is actuated distally to rupture the container, but it may alternatively comprise any suitable configuration for functioning equivalently. Additionally, it is within the scope of the invention to employ a chamber for containing the bonding agent which includes a valved port, wherein the valve is actuated to an open position by the practitioner to release the bonding agent. Various other embodiments for accomplishing this function, as would be known to one of ordinary skill in the art, are deemed to fall within the scope of the invention as well.
Once the localization wire is securely bonded to the surrounding tissue, the practitioner may withdraw the catheter and introducer needle assembly, leaving the localization wire in place to mark the target tissue for the ensuing surgical step in the biopsy or other medical procedure.
In operation, the introducer needle 14 a is disposed coaxially outside of the catheter 12 a, as illustrated in
As in the previous embodiment, once the localization wire is in the proper position, bonding agent is injected into the catheter 12 a, preferably using a syringe which is engaged with the stopcock 32 a, so that the bonding agent flows distally through the first lumen 38 and is infused through the infusion ports 28 a. Again, the infusion ports may be disposed about the catheter, in rows offset by 90 degrees with respect to one another, or otherwise staggered so that the bonding agent is evenly disposed about the catheter. Alternatively, as in the previous embodiment, the bonding agent may be stored in the distal end of the instrument 10 a using an apparatus like that illustrated in FIG. 8. It is within the scope of this invention, as well, to store or inject two or more bonding agent compounds, comprising a reactant and a catalyst, at the injection site, and to mix the reactant and catalyst together at the appropriate time to catalyze a bonding agent.
Once the bonding agent has been injected, but before it has solidified, the catheter 12 a and introducer needle 14 a are withdrawn from the patient's body, leaving the localization wire in place.
Still a third embodiment, which functions in a manner equivalent to that of a localization wire is illustrated in
In a manner in some respects similar to the embodiment of
In operation, the instrument 78 is moved axially to a position wherein the distal tip 80 is preferably distal to a target lesion or tissue to be removed, using a suitable imaging technique. In the prior art, such imaging techniques for biopsy procedures and the like typically include the use of a stereotactic or sonographic imaging system, both of which are relatively expensive and not always available in an average community hospital. This approach is designed to combine the imaging and cutting steps so that both occur simultaneously. For example, in the case of a breast biopsy procedure, the breast is clamped in order to effectively utilize the imaging equipment, after which the instrument is inserted into the breast under imaging guidance to the lesion location. Then, under continued imaging guidance, the cutting element is actuated and the target tissue removed.
However, an important advantage of the present invention is the ability to “uncouple” the imaging environment from the procedural environment in a typical surgical or biopsy procedure, and the resultant important ability to utilize unmodified mammography equipment, readily available in most hospitals, to position the distal end of the instrument during the imaging step, rather than expensive and specialized stereotactic equipment. Then, the procedural step may occur later, in another area of the hospital. In the case of breast biopsies, this “uncoupling” also permits the patient's breast to be unclamped for the procedural step, resulting in increased patient comfort and easier working conditions for the practitioner.
These advantages are made possible because the inventive apparatus and technique permits the securement of the distal end of the instrument to the target tissue or lesion with sufficient confidence that the patient may be moved to the procedural environment without fear of having it slip away from the target tissue. This securement is accomplished using a fixation agent, which preferably comprises a bonding agent like that disclosed in connection with the foregoing localization wire and catheter embodiments. In a manner similar to those embodiments, once the instrument is positioned in a desired position, the bonding agent is injected into a lumen of the instrument, or, alternatively, in a manner like that described supra, released from a container or chamber in the distal end of the instrument, so that it may be infused from one or more infusion ports 88 disposed on the distal end of the instrument. Preferably, the ports 88 are disposed on a bushing or sleeve 90 which has a linear slot 92 for permitting passage of the cutting element 86 as it is extended and retracted radially, and which is rotatable relative to the shaft 84. Thus, when the bonding agent is infused to the surrounding tissue, so that the bushing 90 is affixed in place relative to the surrounding tissue, the cutting element 86 will still be rotatable on the underlying shaft 84 in order to permit circumferential cutting of tissue, as desired, during the later procedural step. Suitable care is taken that only a sufficient amount of bonding agent is dispensed to bond the bushing to surrounding tissue, and not the shaft or tip of the instrument, in order that the shaft and tip continue to be rotatable relative to the bushing.
Of course, the bushing 90 may be constructed in number of alternative ways, as will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. For example, as shown in
Rather than using a bonding agent, a mechanical fixation agent may be utilized to secure the distal end of the instrument to surrounding tissue. For example,
Any of the foregoing mechanical fixation structures may be interchangeably employed in the embodiments of
Still another means for bonding the distal end of the instrument 78 to surrounding tissue, which is within the scope of the present invention, is to apply RF energy to the tissue, using an electrosurgical coagulation element. The electrosurgical coagulation element may comprise one of the existing electrosurgical elements 82 or 86, or preferably another coagulation element 112 (
This approach may also be utilized in the localization wire embodiments illustrated in
While this invention has been described with respect to various specific examples and embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited thereto and that it can be variously practiced within the scope of the following claims.
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|U.S. Classification||600/564, 606/167|
|International Classification||A61B17/22, A61B17/34, A61B18/12, A61B19/00, A61F2/82, A61B10/02, A61B10/00, A61B18/14, A61B17/32, A61B17/00|
|Cooperative Classification||A61B2018/00898, A61B18/1492, A61B2018/162, A61B2018/0091, A61B2018/126, A61B17/320725, A61B2018/1407, A61B2019/5408, A61B18/14, A61B17/32056, A61B2018/1425, A61B18/1477, A61B2019/205, A61B2018/00267, A61B2018/1475, A61B17/3417, A61B2017/320064, A61B19/5225, A61B2018/1253, A61B2018/00208, A61B10/0266, A61B2018/00214, A61B2018/00916, A61B2018/00577, A61B10/0241, A61B17/00491, A61B2018/00333, A61B2017/3488, A61B19/54, A61B10/02, A61B18/1487|
|European Classification||A61B18/14, A61B18/14N, A61B10/02P2, A61B19/54, A61B10/02P6, A61B17/00L, A61B17/3205S|
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|16 Nov 2012||AS||Assignment|
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