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Published Date: Nov. 14, 1997
Company Name: Conceptus Inc.
Address: 1021 Howard Ave.
San Carlos, CA 94070
Main Telephone
Number: 650/802-7240
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.conceptus.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Kathryn Tunstall
Chief Financial
Officer: Sanford Fitch
Investor Relations
Contact: Sanford Fitch
Business number: 650/802-7289
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: CPTS
Industry: Medical Devices
Market Makers: Piper Jaffray, UBS, Josephthal
Company description: Conceptus Inc Conceptus, which is headquartered in Mountain View, California, was founded in 1992. The company began development of micro-catheter and guidewire systems that allowed physicians to access and navigate the fallopian tubes using a non-incisional approach. . designs, develops and markets innovative interventional medical devices for use in reproductive medicine. The Company's initial focus is on the development of systems to improve the diagnosis and treatment of fallopian tube fallopian tube (fəlō`pēən), either of a pair of tubes extending from the uterus to the paired ovaries in the human female, also called oviducts, technically known as the uterine tube. diseases and disorders, a primary cause of infertility infertility, inability to conceive or carry a child to delivery. The term is usually limited to situations where the couple has had intercourse regularly for one year without using birth control. . The Company is introducing a novel technology designed to improve the safety and ease-of-use of therapeutic hysteroscopy, a growing, less-invasive alternative to hysterectomy hysterectomy (hĭstərĕk`təmē), surgical removal of the uterus. A hysterectomy may involve removal of the uterus only or additional removal of the cervix (base of the uterus), fallopian tubes (salpingectomy), and ovaries . The Company is also developing a non-surgical approach to fallopian tube sterilization sterilization Any surgical procedure intended to end fertility permanently (see contraception). Such operations remove or interrupt the anatomical pathways through which the cells involved in fertilization travel (see reproductive system). , the most commonly performed contraceptive contraceptive /con·tra·cep·tive/ (-sep´tiv) 1. diminishing the likelihood of or preventing conception. 2. an agent that so acts. procedure worldwide. CONTACT: Conceptus Inc. |
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