ArthroCare Corporation Fourth Quarter 2002 Earnings Conference Call.Business Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2003 ArthroCare Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ARTC ARTC Arthrocare Corp (stock symbol) ARTC Australian Rail Track Corporation ARTC Air Route Traffic Control ARTC Association de la Recherche Theatrale au Canada ARTC Andean Root and Tuber Crops ), a multi-business medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets minimally invasive soft tissue surgical products based on its patented Coblation technology, will hold its quarterly conference call to discuss financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal 2002 on Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (7 a.m. Central Time). This call is being webcast by CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp CCBN Charles County Business Network and can be accessed at ArthroCare's web site at www.arthrocare.com. The webcast is also being distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (www.streetevents.com). About ArthroCare Corporation ArthroCare Corp. (www.arthrocare.com), headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, is a multi-business medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets minimally invasive soft tissue surgical products based on its patented Coblation technology. Coblation uses low-temperature radio-frequency energy to gently and precisely dissolve rather than burn soft tissue, minimizing damage to healthy tissue. ArthroCare targets a multi-billion dollar market opportunity across several medical specialties Medical Specialties See also anatomy; disease and illness; drugs; health; remedies; surgery. adenography the science of the description of glands. — adenographic, adj. , significantly improving surgical procedures Surgical procedures have long and possibly daunting names. The meaning of many surgical procedure names can often be understood if the name is broken into parts. For example in splenectomy, "ectomy" is a suffix meaning the removal of a part of the body. "Splene-" means spleen. and enabling new, minimally invasive procedures Minimally invasive surgical procedures avoid open invasive surgery in favor of closed or local surgery with less trauma. These procedures involve use of laparoscopic devices and remote-control manipulation of instruments with indirect observation of the surgical field through an . ArthroCare's Coblation-based devices have been used in more than 1.75 million surgical procedures worldwide. The company has developed and marketed Coblation-based products for arthroscopic, spine/neurologic, ear, nose and throat, cosmetic, urologic, gynecologic gynecologic /gy·ne·co·log·ic/ (gi?ne-) (jin?e-kah-loj´ik) pertaining to the female reproductive tract or to gynecology. and laparoscopic/general surgical procedures, and continues research in other areas |
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