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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2024
Medicrea International, Rillieux-la-Pape, FR;
Thomas Mosnier, Rochetaillee sur Saone, FR;
David Ryan, Rochetaillee sur Saone, FR;
MEDICREA INTERNATIONAL, , FR;
Abstract
According to some embodiments, the process includes the steps of: a) taking a sagittal preoperative x-ray of the vertebral column of the patient to be treated, extending from the cervical vertebrae to the femoral heads; b) on that x-ray, identifying points on S1, S2, T12 et C7; c) depicting, on the said x-ray, curved segments beginning at the center of the plate of S1 et going to the center of the plate of C7; e) identifying, on that x-ray, the correction(s) to be made to the vertebral column, including the identification of posterior osteotomies to make; f) pivoting portions of said x-ray relative to other portions of that x-ray, according to osteotomies to be made; g) performing, on said x-ray, a displacement of the sagittal curvature segment extending over the vertebral segment to be corrected; h) from a straight vertebral rod (TV), producing the curvature of that rod according to the shape of said sagittal curvature segment in said displacement position.