Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Patent
1995-11-09
1999-02-16
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
606 73, 606 72, 606 65, 604 93, 6048901, 604285, A61B 1756
Patent
active
058714847
ABSTRACT:
A bone fastener is adapted to deliver biologically active substances to a bone site. An applicator is saturated with the substance and is disposed within an inner cavity of the fastener, near the bone site. Channels through the body of the fastener permit the substance to flow to the bone site. The substance can include therapeutic drugs, such as antibiotics, analgesics, bone morphogenic proteins, DNA, chemotherapy drugs and angiogenesis factors.
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Fogg Douglas A.
Messina Christopher P.
Spievack Alan R.
Buiz Michael
General Orthopedics
Shai Daphna
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