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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2021
Applicant:
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (US);
Inventor:
Charles Sansur, Towson, MD (US);
Assignee:
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE, Baltimore, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/44 (2006.01); A61F 2/30 (2006.01); A61F 2/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/446 (2013.01); A61F 2/30749 (2013.01); A61F 2002/2835 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30164 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30476 (2013.01); A61F 2002/30578 (2013.01); A61F 2/3094 (2013.01); A61F 2/447 (2013.01); A61F 2002/4495 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00017 (2013.01); A61F 2310/00023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A Cloward-style cage device for anterior cervical fusion and fixation includes a body and a lateral stabilizer. The device uses the historical Cloward-style approach, and, as such, decompresses the interbody disc. The device can be used with a cylindrical drill bit to drill through the interbody disc to remove a portion of the interbody endplates to decompress a remaining portion of the interbody disc. The lateral portions of the endplates are generally preserved. The device has a cylindrical body formed of a mesh-like material, with lateral stabilizers.