ArthroCare to Announce First Quarter Financial Results April 18.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--April 12, 2002 ArthroCare Corporation (Nasdaq: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 ) today announced that the company will release financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2002, ended March 30, 2002, on Thursday, April 18 at 4:00 PM Eastern time. The company will hold a conference call for the financial community and interested parties at 4:30 PM Eastern time following the release of results. A live webcast of the conference call will be available online at www.ccbn.com. A copy of the press release and a link to the webcast will be available on the company's website www.arthrocare.com. The webcast will remain available through May 3, 2002. A replay of the conference call will also be available by phone at 800-633-8284, reservation number 20514136 through May 3. ABOUT ARTHROCARE ArthroCare Corp. (www.arthrocare.com), headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., is a multi-business medical device company that develops, manufactures and markets minimally invasive invasive /in·va·sive/ (-siv) 1. having the quality of invasiveness. 2. involving puncture of the skin or insertion of an instrument or foreign material into the body; said of diagnostic techniques. surgical products based on its patented and pioneering Coblation technology. Coblation technology uses low-temperature radio-frequency energy to gently dissolve A Web site design technique borrowed from the film and video industry in which the transition between two Web pages is represented visually by one page fading into another. Also known as a "soft cut," the result is achieved in the HTML coding of the images to gradual pre-determined rather than burn or cut soft tissue, which minimizes damage to surrounding tissue thereby potentially decreasing patient pain and recovery time. ArthroCare is capitalizing on a $2.8 billion market opportunity, targeting established 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. where its Coblation-based devices can quickly and effectively replace traditional electrosurgical or laser surgery tools. Coblation technology currently is used by surgeons for arthroscopic, spine/neurologic, ear, nose and throat, cosmetic cosmetic /cos·met·ic/ (koz-met´ik) 1. pertaining to cosmesis. 2. a beautifying substance or preparation. cos·met·ic n. , 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. ArthroCare's Coblation-based devices have been used in more than 1.5 million surgical procedures worldwide. |
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