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- Patent Title: System and method for multiple level facet joint arthroplasty and fusion
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Application No.: US14291297Application Date: 2014-05-30
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Publication No.: US09439688B2Publication Date: 2016-09-13
- Inventor: Daniel J Triplett , Alan Chervitz
- Applicant: GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC.
- Applicant Address: US PA Audubon
- Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC.
- Current Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Audubon
- Main IPC: A61B17/70
- IPC: A61B17/70 ; A61B17/17 ; A61F2/44 ; A61F2/30

Abstract:
Facet joint replacement implants may be designed for use on multiple adjacent vertebral levels. Each superior implant may have a substantially semispherical concave surface, and each inferior implant may have a cooperating semispherical convex surface that is deformable to enable it to be pressed into the superior implant concave surface to fix the relative orientations of the superior and inferior implants. Thus, the inferior implant may be attached to the same pedicle as the superior implant, but may also be oriented independently of the superior implant and then fixed in position. Similar mounting structures may be used to attach one or more fusion implants to a level adjacent to that of a facet joint replacement implant.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140324102A1 System and Method for Multiple Level Facet Joint Arthroplasty and Fusion Public/Granted day:2014-10-30
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