Surgery – Instruments – Orthopedic instrumentation
Patent
1995-06-07
1997-02-11
Prebilic, Paul B.
Surgery
Instruments
Orthopedic instrumentation
623 17, 606 90, 606 62, A61B 1756, A61B 1758, A61F 230
Patent
active
056015569
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for reduction of spondylolisthesis involving the insertion of an elongate implant which is split longitudinally into two side-by-side members, one of which is movable relative to the other, into the disk space between two misaligned vertebrae is disclosed. Each of the members is provided with teeth for engaging the adjacent vertebrae and positioned on the members so as to be located on opposite sides of the implant. The implant formed by the two side-by-side members is generally rectangularly-shaped in cross section, the height of the rectangularly-shaped cross section being less than the width so that the implant can be inserted between the adjacent vertebrae with the lesser, height dimension oriented in the same direction as the axis of the spinal column and the larger width dimension at approximately a right angle to that axis. One of the two members is then moved relative to the other from the first position in which the members are in the above-described, side-by-side relationship along the longitudinal axis of the implant to a second position in which the members are aligned with the respective, adjacent, misaligned vertebrae and the implant is then rotated by approximately 90.degree. to cause the teeth to contact the bodies of the adjacent vertebrae. The two members are then brought back into the first side-by-side relationship to draw the misaligned vertebrae into alignment and the implant is rotated approximately 90.degree. to disengage the teeth from the vertebrae for removal of the implant from the disk space.
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Prebilic Paul B.
Wisner Mark R.
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