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A61B 17/122

Clamps or clips, e.g. for the umbilical cord

Introduced: January 1995

Full Title

Full titles differ between systems:

IPC:

Surgical instruments, devices or methods > for ligaturing or otherwise compressing tubular parts of the body, e.g. blood vessels or umbilical cord > Clamps or clips, e.g. for the umbilical cord

CPC:

Surgical instruments, devices or methods (A61B18/00 takes precedence; dental tools A61C3/00; eye surgery A61F9/007; ear surgery A61F11/20) > for ligaturing or otherwise compressing tubular parts of the body, e.g. blood vessels or umbilical cord > Clamps or clips, e.g. for the umbilical cord

CPC subdivides this area 3x more granularly than IPC with 3 additional codes.

3 codes are CPC-only extensions, 1 exist only in IPC.

Note: 1 CPC extensions are marked as secondary classification only.

IPC defines codes here since 1995.

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