Abstract: The spacer serves for limiting the depth of insertion of a shaft of a medical instrument into a body of a patient. The spacer has a distal abutment for bearing on a body of a patient. The spacer has a spacer element extending along a length section of the shaft of the medical instrument. A device for releasably mounting the spacer on the shaft has an aperture via which the spacer can be mounted laterally to the shaft. For it the aperture is designed as a lateral slit aperture.

Abstract: A tension-free elastic tape is used for the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence. The tape has a textile structure that allows ingrowth of the tape into the connective tissue. On its longitudinal edges, the tape has edge threads (2, 4, 6, 8) that project from the textile structure of the tape and that especially facilitate a good primary anchoring of the tape in the tissue. The edge threads are firmly incorporated in the structure of the tape.

Abstract: A tension-free elastic tape is used for the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence. The tape has a textile structure that allows ingrowth of the tape into the connective tissue. On its longitudinal edges, the tape has edge threads (2, 4, 6, 8) that project from the textile structure of the tape and that especially facilitate a good primary anchoring of the tape in the tissue. The edge threads are firmly incorporated in the structure of the tape.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tension-free elastic tape that is used for the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence. The inventive tape has a textile structure that allows ingrowth of the tape into the connective tissue. On its longitudinal edges, the tape has edge threads (2, 4, 6, 8) that project from the textile structure of the tape and that especially facilitate a good primary anchoring of the tape in the tissue. The edge threads are firmly incorporated in the structure of the tape.

Abstract: The invention relates to an instrument for the medical examination of tight body ducts, particularly for the mammary ducts of the breast, comprising a cannula having a cannula shaft (6) and a distal cannula end (1). The distal cannula end (1) is transparent and has a point (la) that is distally arched, and a tube section (lb) connected thereto. A recess (4) is configured in the tube section (lb). An adenoid curette (2) may be axially displaced on the tube section (lb) in order to separate tissue accommodated in the recess (4). An endoscopic optical element (3) may be inserted into the cannula shaft (6), thus enabling the observation of the distal point (la) and the tube section (lb) having the recess (4) from the interior as a wide angle optical element.

Abstract: A method of diagnosing diseases associated with aberrant biological phenotypes including contacting a sample to be tested with at least one isoform of membrane associated progesterone receptor component 1 (mPR) as a diagnostic marker, and determining or estimating the degree of phosphorylation of the membrane associated progresterone receptor component 1 (mPR).

Abstract: The spacer serves for limiting the depth of insertion of a shaft of a medical instrument into a body of a patient. The spacer has a distal abutment for bearing on a body of a patient. The spacer has a spacer element extending along a length section of the shaft of the medical instrument. A device for releasably mounting the spacer on the shaft has an aperture via which the spacer can be mounted laterally to the shaft. For it the aperture is designed as a lateral slit aperture.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tension-free elastic tape that is used for the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence. The inventive tape has a textile structure that allows ingrowth of the tape into the connective tissue. On its longitudinal edges, the tape has edge threads (2, 4, 6, 8) that project from the textile structure of the tape and that especially facilitate a good primary anchoring of the tape in the tissue. The edge threads are firmly incorporated in the structure of the tape.