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Elekta, Inc.: Leksell Gamma Knife Icon is a teletherapy device intended for stereotactic irradiation of head structures ranging from very small target sizes of a few millimeters to several centimeters e.g., metastatic tumors, recurrent glioblastomas, trigeminal neuralgia, medically refractory essential tremor, orbital tumors, ocular tumors, optic nerve tumors, benign diseases (such as meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, post-surgical pituitary adenomas, craniopharyngioma, hemangioblastomas, schwannomas, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations, chordomas, glomus tumors, hemangiomas), skull base tumors, head and neck tumors (such as unknown primary of the head and neck, oral cavity, hypopharynx, oropharynx, nasopharynx, sinonasal, salivary gland), and pediatric tumors (such as glioma, ependymoma, pituitary tumors, hemangioblastoma, craniopharyngioma, meningioma, metastasis, medulloblastoma, nasopharyngeal tumors, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations, skull base tumors).
- Recall number
- Z-2697-2017
- Recalling firm
- Elekta, Inc.
- Product
- Leksell Gamma Knife Icon is a teletherapy device intended for stereotactic irradiation of head structures ranging from very small target sizes of a few millimeters to several centimeters e.g., metastatic tumors, recurrent glioblastomas, trigeminal neuralgia, medically refractory essential tremor, orbital tumors, ocular tumors, optic nerve tumors, benign diseases (such as meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, post-surgical pituitary adenomas, craniopharyngioma, hemangioblastomas, schwannomas, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations, chordomas, glomus tumors, hemangiomas), skull base tumors, head and neck tumors (such as unknown primary of the head and neck, oral cavity, hypopharynx, oropharynx, nasopharynx, sinonasal, salivary gland), and pediatric tumors (such as glioma, ependymoma, pituitary tumors, hemangioblastoma, craniopharyngioma, meningioma, metastasis, medulloblastoma, nasopharyngeal tumors, arteriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations, skull base tumors).
- Status
- Terminated
- Initiated
- 2017-05-23
- Posted
- 2017-05-31
- Terminated
- 2017-10-18
- Reason
- If the gantry module is replaced after original installation the configuration settings may be missing. The identified risk for this issue is electrical safety for technicians doing maintenance on the X-ray generator.
- Root cause
- Other
- Action
- Elekta sent an Urgent Important Field Safety Notice dated June 2017, to all affected customers. This notice informs users of the specific product and version numbers affected by the issue. The affected devices are spare part Gantry Module (item number 1515698). Customers are also instructed to complete and return the Important Field Safety Notice Acknowledgement form to their local Elekta representative. For further questions, please call (770) 670-2422.
- Quantity
- 2
- Distribution
- US Distribution to the states of : NY and PA.
- Lot, serial or model codes
- Serial Numbers 6018, 6047, 6090, 6094, 6171, 8018
- 510(k) numbers
- ["K160440"]
- PMA numbers
- not on file
- Product code
- IWB
- Firm FEI
- 1037831
- Firm city
- Atlanta
- Firm state
- GA
- Firm country
- not on file
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- Register
- FDA Medical Device Recalls (openFDA)
- Publisher
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (openFDA)
- File
- device-recall-0001-of-0001.json.zip
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- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Read
- 2026-09-29T08:25:23.626Z
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