Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transforaminal intersomatic cage for an intervertebral fusion graft and an instrument for implanting the cage
- Patent Title (中): 用于椎间融合移植物的椎间孔间隔笼和用于植入笼的器械
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Application No.: US11378165Application Date: 2006-03-17
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Publication No.: US08409288B2Publication Date: 2013-04-02
- Inventor: Reginald James Davis , Kevin Kaufman , Greg Hoffman , Alan McGee , Jean Huppert , Hugues Mousselard , Ludovic Rillardon
- Applicant: Reginald James Davis , Kevin Kaufman , Greg Hoffman , Alan McGee , Jean Huppert , Hugues Mousselard , Ludovic Rillardon
- Applicant Address: FR Rosières Près Troyes
- Assignee: LDR Medical
- Current Assignee: LDR Medical
- Current Assignee Address: FR Rosières Près Troyes
- Agency: Denko Coburn & Lauff LLP
- Priority: FR0601315 20060215
- Main IPC: A61F2/44
- IPC: A61F2/44

Abstract:
This present invention concerns a transforaminal intersomatic cage for an intervertebral fusion graft, and an instrument and method for implanting the cage, an embodiment of the cage having a body in the shape of a circular arc and comprising a lateral concave surface, a lateral convex surface, a straight upper surface, a straight lower surface and an end wall having at least one hole, called the end hole, designed to receive a rod of an instrument for implanting the cage between the vertebrae, wherein: the end hole has an orientation that is more or less tangential to the circular arc described by the body; the extremity opposite to the end wall of the body includes a return part extending the body toward the center of the circle on which the circular arc described by the body lies.
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