Device for applying a tensional force between vertebrae of the h

Details Device for applying a tensional force between vertebrae of the h Device for applying a tensional force between vertebrae of the h

1991-06-13

1994-07-19

Brown, Michael A.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 60, 606 61, A61B 1756

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active

053304721

ABSTRACT:
A device for applying a tensional force between two vertebrae of the human vertebral column, having at least two retaining members adapted to be brought into engagement with associated vertebrae, said members having a throughgoing opening for the accommodation of a threaded rod, and pairs of nuts adapted to be threaded onto said threaded rod in order to fix said retaining members in a desired position on said threaded rod, characterized in that said retaining members are configured as clamping members (10) having two legs (14, 16) which are bendable relative to each other in the plane extending through said threaded rod (26) to embrace a transverse process (22) of a vertebra.

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