Medical apparatus, especially for reducing intraocular pressure

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PATENT NO 6142990
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09023214

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A medical apparatus especially for lowering intraocular pressure by acting on the Schlemm's canal and on the tissue of the trabecular meshwork directly in contact with the Schlemm's canal, including a probe containing a photoconductor which is curved or elastically or plastically deformable to a curved configuration and which is connected to a laser, the photoconductor having a surface coating having at least one emission window therein facing the inner curvature of the photoconductor, the emission window permitting a laser beam to issue from the photoconductor at an angle of 90.degree. to the curvature of the photoconductor.

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OPTISCHE MESSSYSTEME GMBHTIERGARTENSTRASSE 17 D-69121 HEIDELBERG

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Burk, Reinhard O W Heidelberg, DE 1 123

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