Abstract: A disposable brush which allows the pleura to be abraded using pleuroscopy and allows surgeons to adjust the stiffness of the brush and the area to be abraded during the abrasion process includes a longitudinal body which supports rigid bristles and slides within a tubular member that is secured to a handle. A manually actuated slide is connected to the longitudinal body and is movable within a longitudinal lumen of the handle and cooperates with an indexing component supported on the edges of the lumen. Furthermore, the rigid bristles have elastically deformable cambers with different radii of curvature so as to form a flat fan-shaped brush in the deployed operating position outside the tubular member. The bristles of the brush extend laterally from the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: An orthosis for a vacuum treatment of the deformations of the thorax includes a bottom, a peripheral lip made of flexible, elastically deformable material and comes into sealing contact with the thorax so as to form a treatment space using negative pressure, and at least one suction head connected to a negative pressure generation component. The orthosis improves the sealing contact between the orthosis lip and the patient's thorax by increasing the orthosis deformability. To achieve this, the lip has a constant elasticity along the entire periphery thereof, and the bottom is formed of hollow, rigid, transverse side-by-side compartments connected to each other by bridges made of the same flexible material as the peripheral lip of the orthosis. The bridges of material allow the bottom to deform in such a way that the orthosis shape adapts to the thorax anatomy when the orthosis is applied vertically to the thorax.

Abstract: A device made up of a textile tubular sheath, which can be implanted in the human body, suitable for containing a filling material and the ends of which are suitable for covering the ends of two portions of a single resected rib. The sheath contains a braid, in which the yarns allow relative movement in relation to one another in order locally to modify the diameter and the shape of the braid, such that the braid not only covers but also encloses the end of one portion of the rib. The sheath is secured to a tip which, allowing the injection of a biocompatible material for filling the sheath, the packing of the braid and the connection by adhesion of the sheath and the braid with the ends of the portions of the rib, is in turn sectional.

Abstract: A device made up of a textile tubular sheath, which can be implanted in the human body, suitable for containing a filling material and the ends of which are suitable for covering the ends of two portions of a single resected rib. The sheath contains a braid, in which the yarns allow relative movement in relation to one another in order locally to modify the diameter and the shape of the braid, such that the braid not only covers but also encloses the end of one portion of the rib. The sheath is secured to a tip which, allowing the injection of a biocompatible material for filling the sheath, the packing of the braid and the connection by adhesion of the sheath and the braid with the ends of the portions of the rib, is in turn sectional.