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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2018
Stryker European Operations Holdings Llc, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Bloomington, NJ (US);
Oliver Buchert, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Bryan Weiner, Randolph, NJ (US);
M. Todd Miller, Franklin Lakes, NJ (US);
Steven F. Krause, Oakland, NJ (US);
Michael Chang, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a surgical cutting guide, a surgical cutting guide assembly and a method for using same. The surgical cutting may have first and second slots defining first and second axes respectively. The surgical cutting guide may be positioned away from a vertebral body such that the first and second axes intersect at a distal point located in an interior of the vertebral body. The surgical cutting assembly may include the surgical cutting guide with first and second cutting instruments. A method of performing a pedicle subtraction osteotomy may include the steps of placing the surgical cutting guide over the first and second cutting instruments.