Profile: Theragenics Corporation is a medical device company serving the cancer treatment and surgical markets. We offer specialty needles, RF Devices, implanter and introducer products, surgery, vascular, oncology, interventional radiology, endoscopy, pain management, sports medicine, and orthopedics and spine. Our vascular and interventional devices such as introducers, valved sheaths, and guidewires for providing physicians access to the vasculature in interventional radiology, interventional cardiology, and interventional nephrology procedures. Our brachytherapy (seeding) devices that are primarily used in the minimally invasive treatment of prostate cancer.
The company was founded in 1981, has revenues of USD 25-50 Million, has ~160 employees and is CE certified. NYSE:TGX (SEC Filings)
FDA Registration Number: 3013378804
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| • Automatic Surgical Stapler (FDA Code: GAG / 878.4800) A manual surgical instrument for general use is a nonpowered, hand-held, or hand-manipulated device, either reusable or disposable, intended to be used in various general surgical procedures. The device includes the applicator, clip applier, biopsy brush, manual dermabrasion brush, scrub brush, cannula, ligature carrier, chisel, clamp, contractor, curette, cutter, dissector, elevator, skin graft expander, file, forceps, gouge, instrument guide, needle guide, hammer, hemostat, amputation hook, ligature passing and knot-tying instrument, knife, blood lancet, mallet, disposable or reusable aspiration and injection needle, disposable or reusable suturing needle, osteotome, pliers, rasp, retainer, retractor, saw, scalpel blade, scalpel handle, one-piece scalpel, snare, spatula, stapler, disposable or reusable stripper, stylet, suturing apparatus for the stomach and intestine, measuring tape, and calipers. A surgical instrument that has specialized uses in a specific medical specialty is classified in separate regulations in parts 868 through 892. |
| • Bone Wax (FDA Code: MTJ) |
| • Braided Polyblend Suture |
| • Breast Localization Needle |
| • Cardiac Markers |
| • Cardiovascular Surgical Instrument (FDA Code: DWS / 870.4500) Cardiovascular surgical instruments are surgical instruments that have special features for use in cardiovascular surgery. These devices include, e.g., forceps, retractors, and scissors. |
| • Catheter Introducers (FDA Code: DYB / 870.1340) A catheter introducer is a sheath used to facilitate placing a catheter through the skin into a vein or artery. |
| • Disposable Aspiration and Injection Needle (FDA Code: GAA / 878.4800) |
| • Disposable Brachytherapy Applicator Needles |
| • Guidewire Catheter (FDA Code: DQX / 870.1330) A catheter guide wire is a coiled wire that is designed to fit inside a percutaneous catheter for the purpose of directing the catheter through a blood vessel. |
| • Manual Radionuclide Applicator (FDA Code: IWJ / 892.5650) A manual radionuclide applicator system is a manually operated device intended to apply a radionuclide source into the body or to the surface of the body for radiation therapy. This generic type of device may include patient and equipment supports, component parts, treatment planning computer programs, and accessories. |
| • Micro-Introducer Kits |
| • Monofilament & Multifilament Steel Non-Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAQ / 878.4495) A stainless steel suture is a needled or unneedled nonabsorbable surgical suture composed of 316L stainless steel, in USP sizes 12-0 through 10, or a substantially equivalent stainless steel suture, intended for use in abdominal wound closure, intestinal anastomosis, hernia repair, and sternal closure. |
| • Natural Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAL / 878.4830) An absorbable surgical gut suture, both plain and chromic, is an absorbable, sterile, flexible thread prepared from either the serosal connective tissue layer of beef (bovine) or the submucosal fibrous tissue of sheep (ovine) intestine, and is intended for use in soft tissue approximation. |
| • Needles |
| • Non Dental Irrigating Syringe (FDA Code: KYZ / 880.6960) An irrigating syringe is a device intended for medical purposes that consists of a bulb or a piston syringe with an integral or a detachable tube. The device is used to irrigate, withdraw fluid from, or instill fluid into, a body cavity or wound. |
| • Nonabsorbable Surgical Cotton |
| • Palladium-103 TheraSeedr Device |
| • Patient Transducer and Electrode Cable (FDA Code: DSA / 870.2900) A patient transducer and electrode cable (including connector) is an electrical conductor used to transmit signals from, or power or excitation signals to, patient-connected electrodes or transducers. |
| • Percutaneous Catheterization Vessel Dilator (FDA Code: DRE / 870.1310) A vessel dilator for percutaneous catheterization is a device which is placed over the guide wire to enlarge the opening in the vessel, and which is then removed before sliding the catheter over the guide wire. |
| • Polyamide Synthetic Non-Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAR / 878.5020) Nonabsorbable polyamide surgical suture is a nonabsorbable, sterile, flexible thread prepared from long-chain aliphatic polymers Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 and is indicated for use in soft tissue approximation. The polyamide surgical suture meets United States Pharmacopeia (U.S.P.) requirements as described in the U.S.P. monograph for nonabsorbable surgical sutures; it may be monofilament or multifilament in form; it may be provided uncoated or coated; and it may be undyed or dyed with an appropriate FDA listed color additive. Also, the suture may be provided with or without a standard needle attached. |
| • Polydioxanone Absorbable Surgical Suture (FDA Code: NEW / 878.4840) An absorbable polydioxanone surgical suture is an absorbable, flexible, sterile, monofilament thread prepared from polyester polymer poly (p-dioxanone) and is intended for use in soft tissue approximation, including pediatric cardiovascular tissue where growth is expected to occur, and ophthalmic surgery. It may be coated or uncoated, undyed or dyed, and with or without a standard needle attached. |
| • Polyethylene Synthetic Non-Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAT / 878.5000) Nonabsorbable poly(ethylene terephthalate) surgical suture is a multifilament, nonabsorbable, sterile, flexible thread prepared from fibers of high molecular weight, long-chain, linear polyesters having recurrent aromatic rings as an integral component and is indicated for use in soft tissue approximation. The poly(ethylene terephthalate) surgical suture meets U.S.P. requirements as described in the U.S.P. Monograph for Nonabsorbable Surgical Sutures; it may be provided uncoated or coated; and it may be undyed or dyed with an appropriate FDA listed color additive. Also, the suture may be provided with or without a standard needle attached. |
| • Polyglycolic Acid Synthetic Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAM / 878.4493) An absorbable poly(glycolide/l-lactide) surgical suture (PGL suture) is an absorbable sterile, flexible strand as prepared and synthesized from homopolymers of glycolide and copolymers made from 90 percent glycolide and 10 percentl-lactide, and is indicated for use in soft tissue approximation. A PGL suture meets United States Pharmacopeia (U.S.P.) requirements as described in the U.S.P. "Monograph for Absorbable Surgical Sutures;" it may be monofilament or multifilament (braided) in form; it may be uncoated or coated; and it may be undyed or dyed with an FDA-approved color additive. Also, the suture may be provided with or without a standard needle attached. |
| • Polypropylene Synthetic Non-Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAW / 878.5010) Nonabsorbable polypropylene surgical suture is a monofilament, nonabsorbable, sterile, flexible thread prepared from long-chain polyolefin polymer known as polypropylene and is indicated for use in soft tissue approximation. The polypropylene surgical suture meets United States Pharmacopeia (U.S.P.) requirements as described in the U.S.P. Monograph for Nonabsorbable Surgical Sutures; it may be undyed or dyed with an FDA approved color additive; and the suture may be provided with or without a standard needle attached. |
| • Radiation Plaques |
| • Radionuclide Brachytherapy Source (FDA Code: KXK / 892.5730) A radionuclide brachytherapy source is a device that consists of a radionuclide which may be enclosed in a sealed container made of gold, titanium, stainless steel, or platinum and intended for medical purposes to be placed onto a body surface or into a body cavity or tissue as a source of nuclear radiation for therapy. |
| • Scalpel Blade (FDA Code: GES / 878.4800) |
| • Silk Non-Absorbable Suture (FDA Code: GAP / 878.5030) Natural nonabsorbable silk surgical suture is a nonabsorbable, sterile, flexible multifilament thread composed of an organic protein called fibroin. This protein is derived from the domesticated speciesBombyx mori (B. mori ) of the familyBombycidae. Natural nonabsorbable silk surgical suture is indicated for use in soft tissue approximation. Natural nonabsorbable silk surgical suture meets the United States Pharmacopeia (U.S.P.) monograph requirements for Nonabsorbable Surgical Suture (class I). Natural nonabsorbable silk surgical suture may be braided or twisted; it may be provided uncoated or coated; and it may be undyed or dyed with an FDA listed color additive. |
| • Synthetic Absorbable Bone Wax |
| • TheraSeedr Product for Prostate Cancer |
| • Umbilical Truss (FDA Code: EXM / 876.5970) A hernia support is a device, usually made of elastic, canvas, leather, or metal, that is intended to be placed over a hernial opening (a weakness in the abdominal wall) to prevent protrusion of the abdominal contents. This generic type of device includes the umbilical truss. |
| • Vertebroplasty (Does Not Contain Cement) Injector (FDA Code: OAR / 888.4200) A cement dispenser is a nonpowered syringe-like device intended for use in placing bone cement (888.3027) into surgical sites. |
| • Vitreoretinal Surgery, Radiation Plaques |
| • Wound Closures |