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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2023
Filed:
May. 21, 2021
Applicant:
Misonix, Incorporated, Farmingdale, NY (US);
Inventor:
Dan Voic, Cedar Grove, NJ (US);
Assignee:
MISONIX, LLC, Farmingdale, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/32 (2006.01); A61B 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/320068 (2013.01); A61B 17/1671 (2013.01); A61B 2017/320073 (2017.08); A61B 2017/320082 (2017.08);
Abstract
In a surgical method, an elongate probe is inserted into a spinal disc exemplarily into a nucleus pulposus thereof in a direction generally parallel to vertebral end faces adjacent to the spinal disc. During the inserting of the elongate probe, the probe is ultrasonically vibrated. Thereafter, while ultrasonically vibrating the elongate probe, one moves the elongate probe to sever a prismatic portion of the spinal disc including a prismatic section of the nucleus pulposus. The prismatic portion of the spinal disc is removed from a remaining portion of the spinal disc.