Spinal assembly plate

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2005-04-26

2005-04-26

Robert, Eduardo C. (Department: 3732)

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

Reexamination Certificate

active

06884241

ABSTRACT:
A spinal assembly plate. The plate can have an uninterrupted passage to accommodate a portion of a vertebral screw there through at a non-predetermined location of the plate. An apparatus can be included with sidewalls to secure the plate there between. Another apparatus can be included with a face having a frictional character to longitudinally stabilize the apparatus to the plate. A spinal assembly can be included having a vertebral screw, a spinal plate, an apparatus to secure the vertebral screw, and a connector brace to stabilize the plate. In a method of the invention, a vertebral screw can be placed through an opening of a connector brace and into a vertebral body of a patient wherein the brace includes sidewalls to stabilize a spinal plate.

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