Tag: Biopsy

micromate

Interventional Systems announce US FDA clearance for robotic system

Interventional Systems have announced that Micromate has been granted a new 510(k) clearance, allowing the commercial sale of the robotic system in the USA...

Argon Medical launches SuperCore Advantage biopsy instrument in the USA

Argon Medical has announced the launch of the SuperCore Advantage semi-automatic biopsy instrument as the newest addition to its soft tissue biopsy product portfolio...
Temno Elite biopsy

“Intuitive” new biopsy system delivers on reducing “inherent” procedural risk and...

This advertorial is sponsored by Merit Medical. Consultant interventional radiologist Damian Mullan (The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK) speaks to Interventional News about his...

Robotic bronchoscopy shows promise to improve lung biopsies, analysis shows

Lung nodule biopsies performed with new robotic bronchoscopy technology may be safer and more effective than those done by traditional methods, a study by...

Micromate™ reduces complications, radiation exposure and procedure time for increasingly “challenging”...

This advertorial is sponsored by Interventional Systems. Marco van Strijen is an interventional radiologist at St Antonius Ziekenhuis (Nieuwegein, The Netherlands) who specialises in non-vascular...
xact

XACT Robotics receives FDA clearance for its ACE Xtend remote control...

XACT Robotics announced that its ACE Xtend remote control unit received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance, allowing users to robotically insert and...
cancer

Biopsy alternative: ‘Wearable’ device captures cancer cells from blood

A prototype wearable device, tested in animal models, can continuously collect live cancer cells directly from a patient’s blood. Proposed as an alternative to...
Merit

Merit significantly expands biopsy portfolio with release of new bone biopsy...

  Merit Medical Systems has announced the expansion of its biopsy portfolio, with the release of five new manual bone biopsy systems. According to a...

WCIO 2018 puts biopsy front and centre of the interventional oncology...

The opening plenary at the World Conference on Interventional Oncology (WCIO; 7–10 June, Boston, USA) put biopsy, which is considered a mundane procedure by...

New products showcased at SIR 2018

There were several devices in the New Product Showcase at the Society of Interventional Radiology's Annual Scientific Meeting in Los Angeles, USA. Among these...