Venous access port assembly with x-ray discernable indicia

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A - Human Necessities

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A61M 39/02 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2693972

A venous access port assembly (10) having a housing base (28) with a discharge port (16), a septum (14) and a cap (48), with an interior reservoir (22). The housing base (28) is provided with X-ray discernable indicia (100, 200) to identify an attribute of the assembly (10) after its implantation and clearly appear on an X-ray of the patient in a manner informing the radiologist or technologist and the medical practitioner of that particular attribute. Such indicia can be depicted as cutouts (102) through a disc of radiopaque material (100) where the cutouts are in the form of alphabetical letters such as "CT", or can be a set (200) of discrete elements (202) of radiopaque material, that are affixed along the bottom surface of the housing base or embedded within the thickness of the bottom housing wall.

La présente invention concerne un ensemble d'orifice d'accès veineux (10) comportant un socle de boîtier (28) avec un orifice de décharge (16), un septum (14) et un capuchon (48), avec un réservoir intérieur (22). Le socle de boîtier (28) est doté d'inscriptions lisibles aux rayons X (100, 200) pour identifier un attribut de l'ensemble (10) après son implantation et apparaissent clairement sur une radiographie du patient de manière à indiquer au radiologue ou technologue et au médecin cet attribut particulier. De telles inscriptions peuvent être présentées sous forme de découpes (102) à travers un disque de matériau radio-opaque (100) où les découpes sont sous la forme de lettres de l'alphabet telles que 'CT', ou peuvent constituer un ensemble (200) d'éléments discrets (202) de matériau radio-opaque, qui sont fixés le long de la surface inférieure du socle de boîtier ou incorporés dans l'épaisseur de la paroi inférieure de boîtier.

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